Modern holidays individuated what festivals once celebrated collectively

Evidence

Most world fairs featured a large ethnographic section where “natives” in folkloric costume performed activities presented as indigenous. The anthropologist Franz Boas brought an Inuit to the St. Louis World Fair of 1904, to be featured in its “Eskimo village.” — Ivan Davidson Kalmar, Derek Penslar, Orientalism and the Jews, 989 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: World fairs staged indigenous people in folkloric displays as indigenous — Ivan Davidson Kalmar, Derek Penslar, Orientalism and the Jews, 989; American civic holidays shifted from public citizenship to private consumption. — Nina Eliasoph, Avoiding politics: how Americans…, 836

Broader Connections

• World fairs staged indigenous people in folkloric displays as indigenous #exemplifies (0.75) — Ivan Davidson Kalmar, Derek Penslar, Orientalism and the Jews, 989