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The Savage Worlds of Henry Drummond (1851–1897): Science, Racism and Religion in the Work of a Popular Evolutionist

Journal of Religious History, Volume 50, Issue 1, Page 77-95, March 2026.
The savage was a familiar as well as deeply problematic figure in late‐Victorian literary and scientific imaginaries. Savages provided an unstable but capacious and flexible signifier to explore human development and human difference, most often in ways that followed a disturbing racial logic.
Diarmid A. Finnegan
wiley   +1 more source

Organizing the circus : the engineering of miracles [PDF]

, 2011
This paper defines the circus as an institutionalised questioning of forms of stability and classification, and then enquires as to how such effects are produced.
Parker, Martin, Martin Parker
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Arte circense: a magia e o encantamento dentro e fora das lonas Circus arts: magic and charm inside and outside the tents Arte circense: la magia y el encantamiento dentro y fuera de las lonas

Pensar a Prática, 2006
Este texto faz parte da dissertação de mestrado que investiga o saber circense incorporado e compartilhado no Circo Girassol, em Porto Alegre/RS. Pensando o corpo a partir de referenciais culturais e históricos, pode-se observar o movimento da arte ...
doaj   +1 more source

Investigar con artistas circenses. Reflexiones sobre experiencias de investigación corporizada, trabajo colaborativo y escritura colectiva

Ensambles, 2023
RESUMEN: Proponemos compartir reflexiones provenientes de diversas estrategias de investigación que hemos desarrollado a lo largo de nuestras experiencias de trabajo antropológico junto a artistas circenses.
Julieta Infantino , Mariana Saéz
doaj  

From Cirque Global to Local Circus: the Québec Professional Circus Scene during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Circus: Arts, Life & Sciences
Given the success of its artistic and commercial models, the reach of Quebec’s circus has extended across continents to the point that it is now nearly impossible to imagine it being restricted to Quebec alone.
Louis Patrick Leroux
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Life is an inverted circus: Grupo Galpão’s Romeu e Julieta adapted from pennafort’s translation of Shakespeare’s Life is an inverted circus: Grupo Galpão’s Romeu e Julieta adapted from pennafort’s translation of Shakespeare’s

Ilha do Desterro, 2008
Among the various manifestations of late modernism occurring in Brazil is Grupo Galpão, a street theatre company founded in 1982. Combining elements of circus, the improvisation of commedia dell´arte, the exuberant creativity of classic and ...
Júnia de Castro Magalhães Alves, Marcia Noe   +1 more
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Circus Mikkenie Photograph

, 2018
Photographic print of Circus Mikkenie horses in their stables during a tour in Belgium in 1951.

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The Traditional Circus of the State of Rio de Janeiro, between the Tactics and the Improvisations

Revista Brasileira de Estudos da Presença
It is a paper that discusses the current scenery of the Traditional Circus in the state of Rio de Janeiro, analyzing the tactics and improvisations witch the actors use as forms of survival and resistance. The investigation is based on data collected in
Sluchem Tavares Cherem
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Queering Militarism in Israeli Photography

Arts
This article, Queering Militarism in Israeli Photography, examines Adi Nes’s Soldiers series, a body of work that interrogates the intersections of queerness, militarism, and nationalism within Israeli society. By employing a distinctive “military circus”
Nissim Gal
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Blurred Boundaries and Strategic Surveillance: Regulating Behaviour in Bristol’s Commercialised Spaces

The Journal for Undergraduate Ethnography, 2019
This article explores how models of architecture, surveillance, and ownership define commercialised spaces, and in turn dictate how these spaces are experienced – not only by their users but also by the ethnographer. I argue that the supposedly inclusive
Jonathan Fuller
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