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Fabian, Johannes.
Ethnology -- Fieldwork.
Ethnologists -- History.
First contact (Anthropology) -- History.
Africa, Central
Africa, Central
Africa, Central
Universität Frankfurt am Main. Frobenius-Institut
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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.
Author:
Fabian, Johannes.
Title:
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.
Publisher:
Berkeley : University of California Press, c2000.
Description:
xiv, 320 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-310) and index.
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.
Publications:
Reviewed by Tamara Giles-Vernick in African studies review (New Brunswick, NJ) 44 (1) April 2001, pages 142-144 (DT1.A1A26 AFA).
Subject:
Ethnology -- Africa, Central -- Fieldwork.
Ethnologists -- Africa, Central -- History.
First contact (Anthropology) -- Africa, Central -- History.
Africa, Central -- Discovery and exploration -- German.
Africa, Central -- Discovery and exploration -- Belgian.
Africa, Central -- Description and travel
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Universität Frankfurt am Main. Frobenius-Institut
Catalog Source No.:
(OCoLC)ocm43118293
ISBN:
0520221222 (alk. paper)
0520221230 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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