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Author | : Robert Bogdan |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2014-12-10 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 022622743X |
This cultural history of the travelling freak show in America chronicles the rise and fall of the industry as attitudes about disability evolved. From 1840 until 1940, hundreds of freak shows crisscrossed the United States, from the smallest towns to the largest cities, exhibiting their casts of dwarfs, giants, Siamese twins, bearded ladies, savages, snake charmers, fire eaters, and other oddities. By today’s standards such displays would be considered cruel and exploitative—the pornography of disability. Yet for one hundred years the freak show was widely accepted as one of America’s most popular forms of entertainment. Robert Bogdan’s fascinating social history brings to life the world of the freak show and explores the culture that nurtured and, later, abandoned it. In uncovering this neglected chapter of show business, he describes in detail the flimflam artistry behind the shows, the promoters and the audiences, and the gradual evolution of public opinion from awe to embarrassment. Freaks were not born, Bogdan reveals; they were manufactured by the amusement world, usually with the active participation of the freaks themselves. Many of the "human curiosities" found fame and fortune, until the ascent of professional medicine transformed them from marvels into pathological specimens.
Author | : Frederick Drimmer |
Publisher | : Citadel Press |
Total Pages | : 367 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780806512532 |
Siamese twins, midgets, giants, bearded ladies, and hermaphrodites are among the people profiled with compassion and insight
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Publisher | : Sura Books |
Total Pages | : 86 |
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ISBN | : 9788185629896 |
Author | : Martin Monestier |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 189 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 9780806510217 |
Author | : Noria Jablonski |
Publisher | : Counterpoint |
Total Pages | : 142 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781593760847 |
A collection of short works focuses on a central theme of the human body as a landscape, in a volume that relates the experiences of such characters as separated conjoined twins, drag queens, and hospital orderlies. A first collection. Original.
Author | : Alice Roberts |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 283 |
Release | : 2022-11-10 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1398510076 |
Every part of the human body has a name - and story. But how familiar are you with your arachnoid mater or your Haversian canals? Anatomical Oddities is an artistic and linguistic adventure, taking the reader on a journey to discover the hidden landscape of the human body: its crypts and caverns, gorges, islets and mountains. Along the way, we dip into the history of our relationship with the human body and the discoveries that paved the way for modern anatomy and medicine. Quirky, bizarre and beautiful, these pages feature original artworks from Professor Alice Roberts. The intricate details of the human body, the stories of people who unearthed its secrets, and the meanings of the words we use to describe it are laid bare.
Author | : David Pilgrim |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 126 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Abnormalities, Human |
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Author | : Kenneth L. Feder |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2019-03-06 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1538105977 |
This book is an offbeat field guide for sites in North America that reflect the rejection of the facts of prehistory and history. They are the physical equivalents of "fake news" about America's ancient past. Feder provides an entertaining summary forty sites along with the practical information you’ll need to visit these fun and fascinating sites.
Author | : Joe Nickell |
Publisher | : University Press of Kentucky |
Total Pages | : 434 |
Release | : 2005-09-09 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780813123585 |
"Joe Nickell - once a carnival pitchman, then a magician, private detective, and investigative writer - has pursued sideshow secrets for years and has worked the famous carnival midway at the Canadian National Exhibition. For this book, he interviewed showmen and performers, collected carnival memorabilia, researched published accounts of sideshows and their lore, and even performed some classic sideshow feats, such as eating fire and lying on a bed of nails as a cinderblock was broken on his chest. The result of these varied efforts, Secrets of the Sideshows tells the captivating story of the magic, tricks - real or illusory - and performers of the world's midway shows."--BOOK JACKET.
Author | : Jan Bondeson |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2019-01-24 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 1501733451 |
Long ago, curiosities were arranged in cabinets for display: a dried mermaid might be next to a giant's shinbone, the skeletons of conjoined twins beside an Egyptian mummy. In ten essays, Jan Bondeson brings a physician's diagnostic skills to various unexpected, gruesome, and extraordinary aspects of the history of medicine: spontaneous human combustion, colonies of snakes and frogs living in a person's stomach, kings and emperors devoured by lice, vicious tribes of tailed men, and the Two-Headed Boy of Bengal. Bondeson tells the story of Mary Toft, who gained notoriety in 1726 when she allegedly gave birth to seventeen rabbits. King George I, the Prince of Wales, and the court physicians attributed these monstrous births to a "maternal impression" because Mary had longed for a meal of rabbit while pregnant. Bondeson explains that the fallacy of maternal impressions, conspicuous in the novels of Goethe, Sir Walter Scott, and Charles Dickens, has ancient roots in Chinese and Babylonian manuscripts. Bondeson also presents the tragic case of Julia Pastrana, a Mexican Indian woman with thick hair growing over her body and a massive overgrowth of the gums that gave her a simian or ape-like appearance. Called the Ape Woman, she was exhibited all over the world. After her death in 1860, Julia's husband, who had also been her impresario, had her body mummified and continued to exhibit it throughout Europe. Bondeson tracked the mummy down and managed to diagnose Julia Pastrana's condition as the result of a rare genetic syndrome.