Menageries [ Sports & Leisure / Politics & Society / Social interaction ]
… and a pleasurable practice stimulating conversation about broader cultural debates. Like the concert, the theatre , and museums, a menagerie fostered discussions about the colonial trade, the exotic, the domestication, the living conditions … the end of an era and thereby paving the way for nineteenth-century zoological gardens. Like concerts, theatres and museums, menageries institutionalised the exotic with discussions in newspapers, letters, diaries, trade cards, jokes, …
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