| Description |
1 online resource (337 pages) |
| 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 |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Ethnology -- Fieldwork -- Africa, Central
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Ethnologists -- Africa, Central -- History
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First contact (Anthropology) -- Africa, Central -- History
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Discoveries in geography -- Belgian.
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Discoveries in geography -- German.
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Ethnologists.
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Ethnology -- Fieldwork.
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First contact (Anthropology)
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Travel.
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Anthropology - General.
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Anthropology.
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Social Sciences.
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| SUBJECT |
Africa, Central -- Discovery and exploration -- German
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Africa, Central -- Discovery and exploration -- Belgian
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Africa, Central -- Description and travel. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001579
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| Subject |
Central Africa.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780520923935 |
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0520923936 |
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1597347906 |
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9781597347907 |
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9780520221222 |
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0520221222 |
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