Format:
Online-Ressource (xiv, 320 p)
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ill., maps
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24 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0520221230
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0520221222
Content:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-310) and index
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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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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780520221222
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Out of Our Minds : Reason and Madness in the Exploration of Central Africa
Language:
English
