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Out of Our Minds : Reason and Madness in the Exploration of Central Africa.
Explorers and ethnographers in Africa during the period of colonial expansion are usually assumed to have been guided by rational aims such as the desire for scientific knowledge, fame, or financial gain. This book, the culmination of many years of research on nineteenth-century exploration in Centr...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
2000.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Explorers and ethnographers in Africa during the period of colonial expansion are usually assumed to have been guided by rational aims such as the desire for scientific knowledge, fame, or financial gain. This book, the culmination of many years of research on nineteenth-century exploration in Central Africa, provides a new view of those early European explorers and their encounters with Africans. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (337 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780520923935 0520923936 1597347906 9781597347907 9780520221222 0520221222 |