Tarzan in Twentieth-Century America: Cultural Histories of Race, Masculinity, and Primitivism
The Workshop on Science, Technology, and Race (STAR)
A Program of the UC Consortium for Black Studies in California, at UC Irvine
Presents
Tarzan in Twentieth-Century America: Cultural Histories of Race, Masculinity, and Primitivism
With Dr. Virginie Rey, Anthropology Affiliate, Anthropology, UCI
Virginie Rey holds a PhD in Anthropology from the University of Melbourne. Her doctoral thesis explores the history of ethnographic museums in Tunisia, from colonial times to 2015. Her research interests include museum representations, heritage development, ethnography in the Middle East and Islamic museums in the West. Her talk examines the social context of production of Tarzan in the context of primitivism, race and masculinity at the turn of twentieth-century America.
Co-sponsored by the Humanities Commons and Office of the Dean, School of Humanities - at UCI
Humanities Center Mar 7 2019 | 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM DBH 1600