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.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fabian, Johannes.

Contributor:

Universität Frankfurt am Main Frobenius-Institut., Content Provider.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnology--Africa, Central--Fieldwork.

Ethnology.

Ethnologists--Africa, Central--History.

Ethnologists.

First contact (Anthropology)--Africa, Central--History.

First contact (Anthropology).

Africa, Central--Discovery and exploration--German.

Africa, Central.

Africa, Central--Discovery and exploration--Belgian.

Africa, Central--Description and travel.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (337 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2000.

Language Note:

English

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-310) and index.

ISBN:

0-520-92393-6

1-59734-790-6

OCLC:

475930101