The Human Zoo: Science's Dirty Secret

Research Resources

Features

Ota Benga

Monday 26 October 2009

Find out yourself.

Internet archive digital version of the 1898 book The Study of Man by Alfred C Haddon.

Internet archive digital version of the 1922 book The Passing of The Great Race by Madison Grant. 

Downloadable version of the 1903 book Pioneering in Central Africa by Samuel Phillips Werner.

Source material for Ota Benga - The Pygmy in The Zoo by Phillips Verner Bradford and Harvey Blume.

Article from New York Times 1906 Bushman Shares a Cage With Bronx Park Apes.

Dr Sadiah Qureshi Research Associate, Cambridge Victorian Studies Group, University of Cambridge. Publication Performing Race: Exhibitions, Empire and Anthropology in Nineteenth-Century Britain due to be published in Autumn 2010.

Discover more about the Race: Science's Last Taboo season.

You must enable JavaScript to view comments.

Skip Channel4 main Navigation

Channel 4 © 2012. We have updated our terms and conditions and privacy policy. Please ensure you read both documents before using our Digital Products and Services.