Name of Object:

Postcard: Colonial Exhibition 1907, Tuareg caravan

Name in original language:

Exposition Coloniale 1907. Caravane Touareg

Location:

Madrid, Spain

Holding Institution:

National Museum of Anthropology

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Holding Institution (original language):

Museo Nacional de Antropología

Date of Object:

1907

Author:

Michel Lévy Frères (editor)

Inventory Number:

MNAFD3579

Material(s) / Technique(s):

Cardboard

Dimensions:

9 x 14 cm

Description:

This postcard (not franked or used) is part of a collection donated by the anthropologist Manuel Antón.
During the second half of the nineteenth century in Europe and America there were held countless ethnological and colonial exhibitions that showed groups of individuals from distant exotic territories, to make them public and available to anthropologists and scholars. They were put on show alongside exotic animals and recreations of the structures inhabited by these people in their places of origin.
These exhibitions were a result of the intensification of colonial imperialism of the West and also the relative popularity of two young scientific disciplines (physical anthropology and ethnology) and the development of new and intense forms of consumerism among the European bourgeoisie. Actually these exhibitions got to transmit a sense of lower and "savage" status of the colonised people (Sánchez Gómez, L. “Espectáculos demasiado humanos”, 2008, 88-89).

Type of Object

Postcard

Citation of this web page:

"Postcard: Colonial Exhibition 1907, Tuareg caravan" in "Sharing History", Museum With No Frontiers, 2026.
https://sharinghistory.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;AWE;es;11;en

Copyedited by: Anne Dowell

MWNF Working Number: SP 011