[Air-l] Re: Air-l digest, Vol 1 #407 - Ethnographers and human subjects

Frank Schaap schaap at pscw.uva.nl
Mon Jun 10 01:02:16 PDT 2002


Michel wrote:
> Long (?) ago they brought some living specimens of exotic 
> people to show them in
> in public exhibitions and zoos
> So any one from European suburbs can see a "real" Boshiman woman.

And this is brilliantly shown in a Dutch movie by director/writer Alex van Warmerdam called "De Noorderlingen" (The Northerners (??)). It's not the main narrative of the movie though.

http://us.imdb.com/Title?0105019

No clue if this is available with English subtitles. Recommended.

Frank.




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