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The Sinhalese Human Exhibitions on the Route from Lviv to Kyiv (1891) – textual and visual press sources

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Czarnecka, Dominika, 2026, "The Sinhalese Human Exhibitions on the Route from Lviv to Kyiv (1891) – textual and visual press sources", https://doi.org/10.18150/RM5CM8, RepOD, V1

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The route taken in 1891 by the ‘caravan of Sinhalese and Tamil people’ was organised by the Hagenbeck company, and passed through Lviv, Odesa and Kyiv. The research on ethnic shows in modern-day Ukrainian lands focuses on the complex relationship between ethnic-show business, racial knowledge production and popular education. Very little of the relevant source material has survived, and the scarce information testifying to the presence of ethnic shows is mostly found in the local press of the day. Based on the nineteenth-century Polish-language, Ukrainian-language and Russian-language press, we constructed a database containing visual and textual data about the Sinhalese group that performed in Lviv, Odesa and Kyiv in 1891.

This data collection contains the source material used for the article. The collection is made available on an open access basis. Details are available in the intro file entitled 'readme'.

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Arts and Humanities

Keyword

Eastern Europe, ethnic shows, Galicia, Hagenbeck, non-European, popular education, Russian Empire, race science, Sinhalese

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Czarnecka Dominika, Demski Dagnosław (2025). Between Popular Education and Academic Science: The Sinhalese Human Exhibitions on the Route from Lviv to Kyiv (1891). Cultural and Social History 22(2), 227–244. https://doi.org/10.1080/14780038.2025.2484869 https://doi.org/10.1080/14780038.2025.2484869 doi: 10.1080/14780038.2025.2484869

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		readme.txt Plain Text - 1.7 KB - Jan 7, 2026 - 0 Downloads MD5: bf705e4f9b4dfc6723680d476d2d0ef1 License: CC BY - Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 intro - general information about this dataset - a file entitled readme	Preview Download
		list_of_textual_press_materials.txt Plain Text - 1.2 KB - Jan 7, 2026 - 0 Downloads MD5: 67a892c0835eac250ab6e7707784e373 License: CC BY - Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 a list of sources to textual press materials	Preview Download
		list_of_visual_materials.txt Plain Text - 761 B - Jan 7, 2026 - 0 Downloads MD5: 24c40efb1aa9df4a1b78ead9061f0235 License: CC BY - Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 a list of sources to visual press materials	Preview Download
		textual_press_1891.zip ZIP Archive - 184.6 MB - Jan 7, 2026 - 0 Downloads MD5: aa7816cc06096eeb1ca1d7530fa4ba40 License: CC0 Creative Commons Zero 1.0 Source materials - textual press from 1891	Download
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