Ebook {Epub PDF} Ota: The Pygmy in the Zoo by Phillips Verner Bradford

Ota Benga, a pygmy, is brought from the Congo to the US and displayed at the Worlds Fair and later, a cage in the Bronx Zoo. A sad story of a man who loses his place in the world and an enlightening tale of the not so admirable roots of a respected science. The writing isn't great but the story carries the book/5. And I would never have tracked down Phillips Verner Bradford and Harvey Blum's out-of-print book, Ota Benga: The Pygmy in the Zoo, had I not seen the footnote in Adam Hochschild's King Leopold's Ghost, in which Hochschild mentions Benga's stay in the zoo, and notes that Benga committed suicide. I immediately envisioned a pygmy hanging himself to escape the humiliation of life behind bars, and the . Benga's suicide in Lynchburg, Virginia in The story of his life is chronicled by Phillips Verner Bradford in the book, Ota Benga, The Pygmy in the Zoo () and more recently by Mitch Keller in the New York Times, "The Pygmy in the Zoo" (August 6, ) and by a three-day conference in Lynchburg on October , Author: Peggy Pittas.

Find many great new used options and get the best deals for Ota Benga: The Pygmy in the Zoo by Harvey Blume and Phillips Verner Bradford (, Trade Paperback) at the best online prices at eBay! Free shipping for many products! Ota Benga: The Pygmy in the Zoo. Phillips Verner Bradford and Harvey Blume. New York: St. Martin's Press, xxi. pp., 16 b/w photos. American businessman and anthropologist Samuel Phillips Verner while on a tour in Africa to 'collect' an assortment of pygmies for the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, spotted the only 4 feet and 8 inches tall Ota Benga and traded for his freedom from the bltadwin.ru on, Benga accompanied Verner to Missouri, USA, along with four other men from different African tribes, unaware of what lay.

Ota Benga: The Pygmy in the Zoo [Bradford, Phillips Verner; Blume, Harvey] on bltadwin.ru *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Ota Benga: The Pygmy in the Zoo. Ota benga: The pygmy in the zoo. By Phillips Verner Bradford and Harvey Blume. New York: St. Martin's Press. xvi + pp. ISBN 0‐‐‐2. ($ cloth) - Brauer - - American Journal of Physical Anthropology - Wiley Online Library. Skip to Article Content. Benga's suicide in Lynchburg, Virginia in The story of his life is chronicled by Phillips Verner Bradford in the book, Ota Benga, The Pygmy in the Zoo () and more recently by Mitch Keller in the New York Times, "The Pygmy in the Zoo" (August 6, ) and by a three-day conference in Lynchburg on October ,