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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Fabian, Johannes
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2000.
Subjects:
Ethnology > Fieldwork > Africa, Central.
Ethnologists > Africa, Central > History.
First contact (Anthropology) > Africa, Central > History.
Discoveries in geography > Belgian
Discoveries in geography > German
Ethnologists
Ethnology > Fieldwork
First contact (Anthropology)
Travel
Anthropology - General.
Anthropology.
Social Sciences.
Africa, Central > Discovery and exploration > German.
Africa, Central > Discovery and exploration > Belgian.
Africa, Central > Description and travel.
Afrique centrale > Descriptions et voyages.
Central Africa
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • List of Illustrations; Preface and Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction; 2. Travel, Exploration, and Occupation; 3. Living and Dying; 4. Drives, Emotions, and Moods; 5. Things, Sounds, and Spectacles; 6. Communicating and Commanding; 7. Charisma, Cannabis, and Crossing Africa: Explorers in the Land of Friendship; 8. Making Knowledge: The Senses and Cognition; 9. Making Sense: Knowledge and Understanding; 10. Presence and Representation; 11. Epilogue; Appendix: Expeditions; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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