Entertainment Landscape and Ethnographic Shows in Gdańsk, 1860-1914
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3615071 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Dagnosław Demski (0000-0002-3977-0294, Polish Academy of Sciences, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 64 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 67-91 |
| Publication date | 2019-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Acta Ethnographica Hungarica (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1216-9803 • E-ISSN: 1588-2586 |
| Publisher | Akademiai Kiado Zrt (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1556/022.2019.64.1.5 |
| OpenAlex | W2997103452 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 2 |
Ethnographic shows existed as peculiar projects in a specific time and space. Correspondingly, entertainment played a specific role in the life of modernizing cities. This article aims at reconstructing the circumstances and places of entertainment in Gdańsk, where representatives of 'exotic' peoples from distant continents performed on stage. The stage was not only that of ethnic shows (Völkerschauen), where the program of the performance was entirely devoted to one group, but also circuses, where 'exotic others' performed alongside other artists, as well as theaters with a light repertoire of variétés that were operating in Gdańsk at the time. The specificity of shows performed by people from distant lands seemed to reside in emphasizing differences: cultural, ethnic and civilizational. Questions emerge concerning what these shows were like, how 'wildness' was perceived and how 'exotic' daily life was presented? The presented materials have been gathered from the accounts and press advertisements of the Gdańsk press at the time. If meaning in shows was embodied in form, technique, and place, the question at hand, is what precisely we can ascertain about entertainment institutions in urban landscape from this kind of data
Aesthetics · Art · Embodied cognition · Entertainment · Epistemology · Ethnic group · Ethnography · Linguistics · Literature · Meaning (existential · Media studies · Political science · Repertoire · Sociology · Visual arts · Wildness · Anthropology · Historical and Cultural Studies of Poland · Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics · History · Law · Philosophy · Polish Historical and Cultural Studies
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,17 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2020 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |