“…They discuss the meanings assigned to words like "negro," "savage," "native" and "Indian," figures almost always represented as inferior and primitive beings; the way in which "representatives" of non-European populations were co-opted or captured by the organizers of shows and exhibited to a public thirsty for novelties and oddities; and the polemics on otherness, hierarchy, slavery and empire which the exhibitions produced (Maxwell, 1999;Sánchez Gómez, 2002;Blanchard, Boëtsch, Snoep, 2011;Qureshi, 2011). The performance studies also fall into this group, devoted to analyzing how individuals or social groups, generally captive, exploited or marginalized, constructed their own meanings and appeared in the exhibitions as performers, capable of resisting, adapting and sometimes benefitting from degrading or disadvantageous situations.…”