Reviewed by Mary Neuburger | Reviews | Journal of American Ethnic History, 28.3

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Anthropology Goes to the Fair: The 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition. By Nancy Parezo and Don Fowler. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2007. xiv + 536 pp. Maps, photos, tables, appendices, notes, index, and bibliography. $55.00 (cloth).

World fairs have long been the subject of academic inquiry and popular fascination. Yet, amazingly, there is still ample room for academic inquiry into these spectacles of power and plenty. Among other things, world fairs provide a rich context for exploration of issues of ethnicity and race. Nancy Parezo and Don Fowler's Anthropology Goes to the Fair provides a comprehensive contribution to the literature on the world fair phenomenon, focusing explicitly on the display of indigenous peoples at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition of 1904. This fascinating and well-written work accomplishes a number of new things. First, it gives the most in-depth study to date on the "living" displays of indigenous peoples at any fair. Second, it delves considerably into the experience of the people on display, including their harrowing journeys to and from the fair. Third, it addresses public reception of such displays, an aspect generally marginalized in a literature that focuses more on "messages of power" than on how they were received. Finally, and most importantly, it offers an interdisciplinary approach, engaging history and anthropology in an ultimately fruitful and readable partnership.

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