Human zoo
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Human zoos, also known as ethnological expositions, were public displays of people, usually in a so-called "natural" or "primitive" state.[3] They were most prominent during the 19th and 20th centuries.[3] These displays sometimes emphasized the supposed inferiority of the exhibits' culture, and implied the superiority of "Western society", through tropes that purported marginalized groups as "savage".[4][5] They then developed into independent displays emphasizing the exhibits' inferiority to western culture and providing further justification for their subjugation.[6] Such displays featured in multiple colonial exhibitions and at temporary exhibitions in animal zoos.[7]