Out of our minds : reason and madness in the exploration of Central Africa : the Ad. E. Jensen lectures at the Frobenius Institut, University of Frankfurt /

'Out of Our Minds' shows explorers and ethnographers in Africa during colonial expansion were far from rational - often meeting their hosts in extraordinary states influenced by opiates, alcohol, sex, fever, fatigue, and violence.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Fabian, Johannes
Corporate Author: Universität Frankfurt am Main. Frobenius-Institut
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.
Ethnology > Africa, Central.
First contact (Anthropology)
Expeditions > history
Ethnologie > Afrique centrale.
Premiers contacts (Anthropologie)
HISTORY.
Ethnology
Discoveries in geography > Belgian
Discoveries in geography > German
Ethnologists
Ethnology > Fieldwork
Travel
Exploratie.
Kolonisatie.
Ethnologues > Afrique centrale > Histoire.
Ethnologie > Afrique centrale > Histoire.
Autochtones > Premiers contacts avec les Occidentaux > Afrique centrale > Histoire.
Africa, Central > Discovery and exploration > German.
Africa, Central > Discovery and exploration > Belgian.
Africa, Central > Description and travel.
Afrique centrale > Découverte et exploration allemandes.
Afrique centrale > Découverte et exploration belges.
Afrique centrale > Descriptions et voyages.
Central Africa
Humaniora > Historie.
History
Lectures.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Travel, exploration, and occupation
  • Living and dying
  • Drives, emotions, and moods
  • Things, sounds, and spectacles
  • Communicating and commanding
  • Charisma, cannabis, and crossing Africa: explorers in the land of friendship
  • Making knowledge: the senses and cognition
  • Making sense: knowledge and understanding
  • Presence and representation.

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