Dances with Darwin, 1875-1910: Vernacular Modernity in FranceAshgate Publishing, Ltd., 2009 - 311 pagina's This text focuses on the influence of Darwin in the Parisian cafe-concert and music hall, and it is primarily through the analysis of gesture that this discussion is constructed." |
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An anthropology of gesture the place and gesture | 11 |
The Cancan | 50 |
Darwinism and Degeneration Theory in Popular Culture | 59 |
from Hybrids to Hottentots | 68 |
What the Spectator Really Wants to See | 75 |
Degeneration Anthropological and Medical | 81 |
Monkey Business | 93 |
TroubleMakers | 99 |
January 1889 Courtesy Bibliothèque nationale | 157 |
February 1903 Courtesy Bibliothèque Forney | 176 |
the life of savages Courrier Français 8 December 1901 | 185 |
Epileptic Singers and the Mysteries of the Dark Continent | 199 |
Darwin Meets Père Ubu | 243 |
Darwins AvantGarde Ubus Progeny | 265 |
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aesthetic African dance animal anthropology Archaeopteryx artists attraction audience avant-garde black American blackface body brain café-concert Cake-Walk cancan cannibalism century Chapter Chocolat cited comic contortions Courrier Français culture Dahomey danced the Cake-Walk dancers Darwin degeneration emphasis epilepsy epileptic singers evolution evolutionary example exhibited exotic Exposition Universelle expression fantasies fascination fashion fear Figure film France French genre gestures grimaces grotesque Hottentot human hybrid hysteria hysterical ibid illustrated imitation instinct Jarry Jarry's Josephine Baker journalist laughter Le Monde illustré Le Rire minstrel shows modern Monde illustré monkey Moulin Rouge movements music-hall Nana Nègre Negro nervous neurasthenia nineteenth nineteenth-century Paris qui Chante Parisian Parisienne Pataphysics pathology play Polaire Polaire's popular primitive prostitute races racial reader regression resemblance Revue rhythm Rire Salpêtrière savage sensations sexual simian songs spectacle spectators stage strange theater Théâtre theory Ubu Roi Ubu's ugliness unconscious underlined Venus woman women wrote Yvette Guilbert