Expositions coloniales et hiérarchie des peuples dans le Japon moderne

Abstract

During the 19th century, industrial and universal exhibitions were held by the great powers, and the populations of their colonial empires were also exhibited to the public as scientific objects or "exotic" curiosa. Far from being limited to the West, this historical dynamic involved all modern powers at the beginning of the 20th century, as is shown in the present article. This paper draws a general view of modern exhibitions in Japan and focuses on the exhibition of colonial or "exotic" populations in Osaka in 1903, before analyzing the discourses and criticism that accompanied this exhibition.

Human Zoos or Ethnic Shows? Essence and contingency in <i>Living</i> Ethnological Exhibitons

“…The exhibition fever of those years even hit Japan, where colonial and anthropological exhibitions were organized in Osaka (1903) and Tokyo (1913). These showed Ainu peoples and persons from the newly incorporated territories of the Japanese Empire (Siddle, 1996;Nanta, 2011). 8.…”