Putting humans on display — Paris museum asks why

Monday, November 28, 2011 - 13:30 in Paleontology & Archaeology

For centuries, colonizers plucked villagers from Africa, the Americas or the South Pacific and put them on display half a world away. Curator and former soccer star Lilian Thuram hopes the exhibit at the Quai Branly Museum in Paris makes people question deep-held beliefs about the "other."

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