TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kerchy,Anna
AU  - Zittlau,Andrea
TI  - Exploring the Cultural History of Continental European Freak Shows and 'Enfreakment'
SN  - 9781443846424
AV  - D1056 
U1  - 306.094 
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Newcastle upon Tyne
PB  - Cambridge Scholars Publishing
KW  - Civilization
KW  - History
KW  - Curiosities and wonders
KW  - Europe
KW  - Freak shows
KW  - Curiosity
KW  - Exploratory Behavior
KW  - Congenital Abnormalities
KW  - history
KW  - Cultural Characteristics
KW  - Leisure Activities
KW  - psychology
KW  - Civilisation
KW  - Histoire
KW  - Curiosités et merveilles
KW  - Exhibitions de monstres
KW  - Curiosité
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE
KW  - Public Policy
KW  - Cultural Policy
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Anthropology
KW  - Cultural
KW  - Popular Culture
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Table of contents; introduction; leprous bodies and abject charity; missionaries, monsters, and the demon show; frontier girl goes feral in eighteenth century france; the diderot freak show; spectacular medical freakery; monstrous bodies in rudolf virchow's medical collection in nineteenth century germany; enfreakment and german medical collections; normalizing bodily difference in autobiographical narratives of the central european armless wonders carl hermann unthan and františek filip; "tiny artists from the big world"; from showbiz to the concentration camp; the freaks of chernobyl; On grace and disabilitylonging for endor; contributors; index
N2  - This collection offers cultural historical analyses of enfreakment and freak shows, examining the social construction and spectacular display of wondrous, monstrous, or curious Otherness in the formerly relatively neglected region of Continental Europe. Forgotten stories are uncovered about freak-show celebrities, medical specimen, and philosophical fantasies presenting the anatomically unusual in a wide range of sites, including curiosity cabinets, anatomical museums, and traveling circus ac
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