Tarzan in Twentieth-Century America: Cultural Histories of Race, Masculinity, and Primitivism


 Humanities Center     Mar 7 2019 | 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM DBH 1600

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