Human zoo facts for kids
A human zoo was an exhibition that showed people from other cultures. Very often, this was done in similar ways than animals are shown in zoological gardens today. Most such exhibitions were done between 1870 and 1940. Human zoos attracted many people in Europe. They were often based on the idea of unilinealism, scientific racism and social Darwinism. Unilinealism or unilineal evolution is the idea that evolution happens only in one direction; some animal will be "at the peak" of evolution. Because of these ideas, some human zoos placed indigenous people (particularly Africans) in a continuum somewhere between the great apes and humans of European descent. Ethnographic zoos have since been criticized as highly degrading and racist.
Images for kids
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A group of Igorot displayed at a human zoo during the St. Louis World's Fair
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An African girl fed by the outstretched hand of a white patron during 1958 Brussels World's Fair featuring 'Congo Village' with visitors watching her from behind wooden fences.
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Poster for an anthropological exhibition in Paris, c. 1870
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Ad for a Carl Hagenbeck show (1886)
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Ad for an 1893/1894 ethnological exposition of Sámi in Hamburg-Saint Paul
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Grand Colonial Exhibition (Meiji Memorial Takushoku Expo) at Tennoji Park, Osaka in 1913 (明治記念拓殖博覧会（台湾土人ノ住宅及其風俗）)
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See also
In Spanish: Zoológico humano para niños
