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Staged Otherness. Human Oddities in Central Europe, c. 1850-1939

2015/19/B/HS3/02143

Keywords:

otherness oddities ethnographic shows freakshows authenticity nonverbal behaviors gaze

Descriptors:

  • HS3_11: Ethnography and cultural anthropology (incl. descriptions of traditional cultures, anthropology of magic, worship and religion, cultural change and global processes, anthropology of socio-cultural, ethnic and identity phenomena)

Panel:

HS3 - The study of the human past: history, archaeology, ethnology, cultural anthropology

Host institution :

Instytut Archeologii i Etnologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk

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Principal investigator (from the host institution):

dr hab. Dagnosław Demski 

Number of co-investigators in the project: 4

Call: OPUS 10 - announced on 2015-09-15

Amount awarded: 401 812 PLN

Project start date (Y-m-d): 2016-08-08

Project end date (Y-m-d): 2021-12-07

Project duration:: 64 months (the same as in the proposal)

Project status: Project settled

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Equipment purchased [PL]

  1. Komputer przenośny z podstawowym oprogramowaniem i wyposażeniem (3 000 PLN)
  2. Aparat cyfrowy (+ pamięć, baterie) - wykonywanie fotografii (2 szt.) (4 000 PLN)

Information in the final report

  • Publication in academic press/journals (11)
  • Articles in post-conference publications (1)
  • Book publications / chapters in book publications (2)
  1. Consuming Masculinity and Race: Circus Bodies in Strength Shows and Wrestling Fights
    Authors:
    Dominika Czarnecka
    Academic press:
    Acta Ethnographica Hungarica (rok: 2019, tom: 64 no 1, strony: 109-134), Wydawca: Akademiai Kiado
    Status:
    Published
  2. The Buddhist Temple in the Imperial City of Saint Petersburg: a Different Way of Cultural Integration
    Authors:
    Oyungerel Tangad
    Academic press:
    Acta Ethnographica Hungarica (rok: 2019, tom: 64 no 1, strony: 225-242), Wydawca: Akademia Kiado
    Status:
    Published
  3. Spaces of Modernity: Ethnic Shows in Poznań, 1879–1914
    Authors:
    Dagnosław Demski
    Academic press:
    East-Central Europe (rok: 2020, tom: 47 no 2, strony: 202-232), Wydawca: Central European University; Brill
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.30965/18763308-04702001 - link to the publication
  4. The Sarrasani Circus in Opole: On Entertainment in the City in the First Decades of the 20th Century
    Authors:
    Kamila Baraniecka-Olszewska
    Academic press:
    Acta Ethnographica Hungarica (rok: 2019, tom: 64 no 1, strony: 91-108), Wydawca: Akademia Kiado
    Status:
    Published
  5. Entertainment Landscape and Ethnographic Shows in Gdańsk, 1860–1914"
    Authors:
    Demski Dagnosław
    Academic press:
    Acta Ethnographica Hungarica (rok: 2019, tom: 64 no 1, strony: 65–90), Wydawca: Akademiai Kiado
    Status:
    Published
  6. Buffalo Bill and Patriotism: Criticism of the Wild West Show in the Polish-Language Press in Austrian Galicia in 1906
    Authors:
    Kamila Baraniecka-Olszewska
    Academic press:
    East-Central Europe (rok: 2020, tom: 47 no 2, strony: 313-333), Wydawca: Central European University; Brill
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.30965/18763308-04702001 - link to the publication
  7. In the Footsteps of Julia Pastrana. Cultural Responses to an Ape-woman's Stay in Warsaw in 1858 and Reaction of Polish Press to Her Extraordinary Body
    Authors:
    Izabela Kopania
    Academic press:
    Acta Ethnographica Hungarica (rok: 2019, tom: 64 no 1, strony: 37-64), Wydawca: Akademia Kiado
    Status:
    Published
  8. Contextualizing Ethnographic Shows in Central and Eastern Europe
    Authors:
    Dagnosław Demski, Dominika Czarnecka
    Academic press:
    East-Central Europe (rok: 2020, tom: 47 no 2, strony: 163-172), Wydawca: Central European University; Brill
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.30965/18763308-04702001 - link to the publication
  9. 'A w niedzielę chodziliśmy oglądać ludzi'. Pokazy etnograficzne we wrocławskim ogrodzie zoologicznym 1876-1930
    Authors:
    Dominika Czarnecka
    Academic press:
    Etnografia Polska (rok: 2018, tom: LXII, strony: 183-198), Wydawca: IAE PAN
    Status:
    Published
  10. Black Female Bodies and the 'White' View: The Dahomey Amazon Shows in Poland at the End of the Nineteenth Century."
    Authors:
    Dominika Czarnecka
    Academic press:
    East-Central Europe (rok: 2020, tom: 47 no 2, strony: 285-312), Wydawca: Central European University; Brill
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.30965/18763308-04702001 - link to the publication
  11. "Spoglądając wstecz…". Wystawa "szczepów" z doliny Nilu w Poznaniu, 1914
    Authors:
    Dagnosław Demski
    Academic press:
    Etnografia Polska (rok: 2018, tom: LXII, strony: 199-219), Wydawca: IAE PAN
    Status:
    Published
  1. (Nie)realny socjalizm. Cyrk w powojennje fotografii prasowej na przykładzie "Przekroju" (1945-1956)
    Authors:
    Dominika Czarnecka
    Conference:
    Życie codzienne w PRLu (rok: 2019, ), Wydawca: Lublin: UMCS
    Data:
    konferencja 2018
    Status:
    Published
  1. Azja w cudzych oczach. "pokazy" ludów azjatyckich na ziemiach polskich na przełomie XIX i XX wieku
    Authors:
    Dagnosław Demski
    Book:
    Lokalne i globalne perspektywy azjanistyczne (rok: 2018, tom: I, strony: 295-308), Wydawca: Wydawnictwo IAE PAN
    Status:
    Published
  2. Staged Otherness. Ethnic Shows in Central and Eastern Europe 1850-1939
    Authors:
    Dagnosław Demski, Dominika Czarnecka (pod red.)
    Book:
    Staged Otherness. Ethnic Shows in Central and Eastern Europe 1850-1939 (rok: 2021, tom: 2021, strony: 1-449), Wydawca: CEU Press
    Status:
    Published