Out of Our Minds: Reason and Madness in the Exploration of Central Africa

by Johannes Fabian

Book Overview

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. Out of Our Minds shows explorers were far from rational--often...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520221230
• ISBN13: 9780520221239
• Release Date: June 2000
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 335 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.0"