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Sarah Baartman (Afrikaans: [ˈsɑːra ˈbɑːrtman]; c. 1789 – 29 December 1815), also spelled Sara, sometimes in the diminutive form Saartje (Afrikaans pronunciation:), or Saartjie, and Bartman, Bartmann, was a Khoekhoe woman who was exhibited as a freak show attraction in 19th-century Europe under the name Hottentot Venus, a name that was later attributed to at least one other woman ...
The film concerns a woman named Sarah Baartman during colonial times. Set between 1810 and 1815, the documentary relates the true story of a 20-year-old woman travelling to London from Cape Town . A member of the Khoekhoe people, the woman was exhibited as a freak across England and became known as the Hottentot Venus.
Saartjie “Sarah” Baartman was an African woman who, in the early 180. Sarah Baartman was an international sensation of objectification. British LibraryIn “BLACK EFFECT,” a track from ...
George's cuvier declared "I have never seen a human head so similar to that of an ape." Standing by a moulded cast of Saartjie Baartman's body, anatomist Georges Cuvier's verdict is categorical. Several years before in 1810 Sarah Baartman, a khoikhoi woman from South Africa, is brought to London by Hendrick Caezer, an Afrikaaner.
A caricature of Saartjie Baartman, called the Hottentot Venus. Born to a Khoisan family, she was displayed in European cities in the early 19th century. Poster for an anthropological exhibition in Paris, c. 1870. The abstract concept of human displays in zoos has been documented throughout the duration of colonial history.
Venus is a 1996 play written by American playwright Suzan-Lori Parks about the life of Khoekhoe woman Sarah Baartman.Set during the 19th century, the play opens in South Africa where Baartman was born, before transitioning to Europe as Baartman begins to perform in freak shows in London.
The body of Khoikhoi woman Saartjie Baartman (displayed until 1974; repatriated in 2002) Skulls of 24 Algerian fighters who resisted French rule in the 19th century and were beheaded (repatriated in 2020) [9] [10] [11]
The bustle has been linked to Sarah Baartman by feminist scholars such as Anne Fausto-Sterling. [6] [7] Baartman, a Khoikhoi woman from South Africa, was featured as a circus attraction in Europe in the early 1800s, due to the particular abundance of tissue on her buttocks. [8] This phenotype is called steatopygia.