Konsum des Anderen. Schaustellungen »exotischer« Menschen in Wien

Abstract

Between 1870 and 1910 numerous groups of so called >exotic peopleexhibitionsVolkspraterexoticexotic< inhabitants. The author argues that the discussions concerning ,exotic people< were in fact discussions about the strange and the familiar within the visitors' own society. Discourses about the ,wild, and the ,exotic< were connected with anti-semitism, the conflicts between liberals and conservatives and other discourses concerning sexuality, gender and race.