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Very Special People
Siamese twins, midgets, giants, bearded ladies, and hermaphrodites are among the people profiled with compassion and insight
The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Animal Life
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Captured by the Indians
Astounding eyewitness accounts of Indian captivity by people who lived to tell the tale. Fifteen true adventures recount suffering and torture, bloody massacres, relentless pursuits, miraculous escapes, and adoption into Indian tribes.
Scalps and Tomahawks
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Freak Show
This cultural history of the travelling freak show in America chronicles the rise and fall of the industry as attitudes about disability evolved. From 1840 until 1940, hundreds of freak shows crisscrossed the United States, from the smallest towns to the largest cities, exhibiting their casts of dwarfs, giants, Siamese twins, bearded ladies, savages, snake charmers, fire eaters, and other oddities. By today’s standards such displays would be considered cruel and exploitative—the pornography of disability. Yet for one hundred years the freak show was widely accepted as one of America’s most popular forms of entertainment. Robert Bogdan’s fascinating social history brings to life the w...
Body Snatchers, Stiffs and Other Ghoulish Delights
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Weird and Wonderful
A wondrous assortment of curiosities attracted the nineteenth-century spectator at the dime museum.
Indian New England Before the Mayflower
Provides a history of the New England Indians and examines their food, housing, and lifestyle
Inside Teradome
An Illustrated History of Freak Film Freakshows - human anomalies presented for spectacle-have flourished throughout recorded history. The birth of movies provided a further outlet for these displays, which in turn led to a peculiar strain of bizarre cinema: Freak Film. 'Inside Terradome' is a comprehensive and fully illustrated guide to the roots and development of this fascinating, often disturbing cinematic genre.
The Cassowary's Revenge
Donald Tuzin first studied the New Guinea village of Ilahita in 1972. When he returned many years later, he arrived in the aftermath of a startling event: the village’s men voluntarily destroyed their secret cult that had allowed them to dominate women for generations. The cult’s collapse indicated nothing less than the death of masculinity, and Tuzin examines the labyrinth of motives behind this improbable, self-devastating act. The villagers' mythic tradition provided a basis for this revenge of Woman upon the dominion of Man, and, remarkably, Tuzin himself became a principal figure in its narratives. The return of the magic-bearing "youngest brother" from America had been prophesied, ...
