På ville veier? Levende utstillinger av samer i europa og amerika / On wild roads? Live exhibitions of Sami people in Europe and America

Abstract [translation from norsk]
Cathrine Baglo's thesis discusses and presents the history of "living exhibitions" with an emphasis on exhibitions in which Sami participated. With the term living exhibitions, she refers to the realistic stagings of "primitive cultures" - people, animals and environments - which were shown in zoos, in amusement parks and at world exhibitions throughout the 19th century and the first decades of the 20th century. A particular emphasis is placed on documenting in detail which people participated in the exhibition, when and where, and related to this, showing how and to what extent the exhibition participants were acting actors. Baglo himself has presented the main features of the thesis above, and in this short version of our opposition we will point to particularly interesting perspectives, but we will especially emphasize our critical points.