From Samoa with Love: Samoan Travellers in Germany 1895-1911. Retracing the Footsteps - Hardcover

Hilke Thode-Arora; P. Hempenstall; G. A. Hunkin; H. Rumschöttel; M. Tuffery

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3777422398 ISBN 13: 9783777422398

Verlag: Hirmer, 2014

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Völkerschauen, or human ethnological displays, promised to take visitors around the world for fifty pennies,” providing a form of popular entertainment in late-nineteenth and early twentieth-century Germany while also satisfying deepening European curiosities about exotic peoples and places. For the Samoansmany of high social statuswho traveled to Germany to take part invölkerschauen, the displays were seen as an opportunity to establish political ties with the colonial power.

From Samoa With Love? traces the history of these displays of typically” Samoan forms of music, dance, and weapons performance that could be found in amusement parks, zoos, and even at Oktoberfest. Recovering both German and Samoan interests invölkerschauen between 1895 and 1911, the book looks at how these Samoan ethnological displays shaped the ways German people saw foreign cultures. Echoes ofvölkerschauen, for instance, came to be seen in many works of art of the period, from Ludwig Kirchner’s woodcutRowing Samoan Woman to Erich Heckel’s Samoan Dance, paintings and prints by the Samoan-descended artist Michel Tuffery, and works by artists of the Dresden-based collective Die Brücke. Featuring interviews with descendants of formervölkerschauen performers, the detailed reconstruction in From Samoa With Love? goes well beyond clichés to present a nuanced picture of the phenomena of Samoan ethnological displays.

Biografía del autor:

Hilke Thode-Arora is an ethnologist at the State Museum for Ethnology in Munich, where she specializes in Samoan history and culture.

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• Verlag: Hirmer
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• ISBN 10: 3777422398
• ISBN 13: 9783777422398
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 223