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 / / Johannes Fabian

• Autore: Fabian Johannes
• Pubblicazione: Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2000
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (337 p.)
• Disciplina: 967
• Soggetto topico: Ethnology - Africa, Central - Fieldwork; Ethnologists - Africa, Central - History; First contact of aboriginal peoples with Westerners - Africa, Central - History
• Soggetto geografico: Africa, Central Discovery and exploration German; Africa, Central Discovery and exploration Belgian; Africa, Central Description and travel
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-310) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Out of our minds
• ISBN: 0-520-92393-6; 1-59734-790-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910828955203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II