Exposer le Nord à Paris : des Inuits et des Sames au Jardin d'acclimatation (1877-1878)

• Main Author: Guffroy, Yohann
• Other Authors: Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Annie Bourguignon, Konrad Harrer
• Format: Book Part
• Language: French
• Published: HAL CCSD 2019
• Subjects: [SHS.HISPHILSO]Humanities and Social Sciences/History; Philosophy and Sociology of Sciences; [SHS.HIST]Humanities and Social Sciences/History; Conseil; eskimo*; esquimaux; Groenland; inuit; inuits; Lapons; sami
• Online Access: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03176674

International audience In 1874, Albert Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, director of the Jardin d’Acclimatation in Paris, decides with his board of directors to present a new attraction. Besides animals and plants, they want to exhibit different human groups. Our article will focus on two exhibitions of Inuit...