TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hawkins,Michael C.
TI  - Semi-Civilized: The Moro Village at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition 
T2  - NIU Southeast Asian Series
SN  - 9781501748226
AV  - DS666.M8 
U1  - 305.6/970977866074 23
PY  - 2020///]
CY  - Ithaca, NY : 
PB  - Cornell University Press, 
KW  - Ethnology
KW  - Philippines
KW  - Exhibitions
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Human zoos
KW  - Missouri
KW  - Saint Louis
KW  - Imperialism in popular culture
KW  - Muslims
KW  - Midwest
KW  - U.S. History
KW  - HISTORY / Asia / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Moros, Empire, Exposition, Philippines, colonial studies, American empire
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction: The Complicated and Collaborative Art of Colonial Display --; 1. Sensational Savages --; 2. Nostalgia and the Familiar Savage --; 3. Measuring Moros --; Conclusion: The Paradox of Preservation and Performative Extinction --; Epilogue --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access
N2  - Semi-Civilized offers a concise, revealing, and analytically insightful view of a critical period in Philippine history. Michael C. Hawkins examines Moro (Filipino Muslim) contributions to the Philippine Exhibit at the St. Louis World's Fair in 1904, providing insight into this fascinating and previously overlooked historical episode.By reviving and contextualizing Moro participation in the Exposition, Hawkins challenges typical manifestations of empire drawn from the fair and delivers a nuanced and textured vision of the nature of American imperial discourse. In Semi-Civilized Hawkins argues that the Moro display provided a distinctive liminal space in the dialectical relationship between civilization and savagery at the fair. The Moros offered a transcultural bridge. They, through their official yet nondescript designation as "semi-civilized," undermined and mediated the various binaries structuring the Exposition. Hawkins demonstrates, represented an unexpectedly welcomed challenge to the binary logic and discomfort of the display.As Semi-Civilized shows, the display was collaborative and the Moros exercised unexpected agency, by negotiating, how the display was both structured and interpreted by the public. Fair-goers were actively seeking an extraordinary experience. Exhibit organizers framed it, but ultimately the Moros provided it. And therein lay a tremendous amount of power
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501748233?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501748233
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ER  -