Sentences with phrase «ethnological displays»
These cases act as would - be ethnological displays providing an imagined museological context while at the same time serving as three - dimensional sketchbooks.
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Ethnological expositions of the 19th and 20th centuries where those who were born different — dwarves, albinos, microcephalics and hunchbacks, as well as indigenous peoples from other continents — were displayed in circuses, paired with animals or kept in cages or menageries, are the genesis for Lavar Munroe's «Zoo at the Edge of the World» A Continuum of the Exotic» exhibit in ALH's main gallery.
Taking finds in ethnological museums as a starting point, he distinguishes between two different concepts of repair: the patched vessels, statuettes and writing tablets in the ethnological collections very openly display their joints and clamps, and with them their histories as objects.