This article inquires into the meaning and valence of late nineteenth-century exotic displays in Budapest, a location without the colonial stakes that apparently determined the course of the “human zoo” in most Western European contexts. It explores the reporting on ethnic shows in the metropolitan press, points out stereotypical and more idiosyncratic representations, and examines these against the background of arising scientific discourses in anthropology and ethnography. While in some corners at least the ethnic shows were understood and promoted as potential instruments of engendering a cosmopolitan sense of “being-in-the-world” for a recently emancipated province of a continental empire, the responses do not appear to have satisfied such expectations.

本文探讨了布达佩斯十九世纪末期的异国风情展览的意义和价位，布达佩斯是一个没有殖民地标的地方，显然在大多数西欧背景下都决定了“人类动物园”的发展方向。它探索了大都市媒体关于民族表演的报道，指出了刻板印象和更特异的表现形式，并在人类学和人种学的科学论述不断兴起的背景下进行了研究。尽管至少在某些角落，种族展示被理解和推广为潜在的工具，从而为最近解放的一个大陆帝国的省份带来了国际化的“存在于世界中”的感觉，但这些回应似乎并没有满足于这样的要求。期望。