Exotic Switzerland?
Introduction
Becoming Self through the Other: Another History of the Enlightenment
Swiss Porcelain and Slavery in the Global Eighteenth Century
Slavery, Exoticism, and Swiss Exceptionalism around 1800
Tea, Textures, and Techniques: Jean-Étienne Liotard and the Arts of Asia
Asian Objects in Switzerland: Between Collector’s Items and Consumer Goods
Human Trafficking
A Genevan in Quest of the American Museum: Pierre-Eugène Du Simitière
Is Antiquity Exotic?
Printing the Exotic: Forms and Figures of the “Faraway” before the Birth of Anthropology
Learning from Objects: The Cabinet of Curiosities in Zurich’s Wasserkirche and its Functions
Alexandre-César Chavannes’s Anthropology
Swiss Chintzes: Cotton Threads and Political Patterns
Site of Memory and Projection Surface: Place in Scenic Wallpapers
The Swiss as European Savages?
The Discovery of the Alps: Between “Science” and Exoticism
Indiennes for the Swiss
Afterword: The Ruses of Exoticism
The Fragile Structures of In-Betweenness: Susan Hefuna
Authors
Table of Figures
Bibliography
Index