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

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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

Author:

Fabian, Johannes.

Personal Author:

Fabian, Johannes.

Publication Information:

Berkeley : University of California Press, [2000]

Physical Description:

xiv, 320 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Language:

English

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.

Reading Level:

1360 Lexile.

Subject Term:

Ethnology -- Africa, Central -- Fieldwork.

Ethnologists -- Africa, Central -- History.

First contact of aboriginal peoples with Westerners -- Africa, Central -- History.

Geographic Term:

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

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

Africa, Central -- Description and travel.

Added Corporate Author:

Universität Frankfurt am Main. Frobenius-Institut.