Author: Melville William Hilton-SimpsonPublisher:
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Category : Congo (Democratic Republic)
Languages : en
Pages : 506
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Land and Peoples of the Kasai
Author: Melville William Hilton-SimpsonPublisher:
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Category : Congo (Democratic Republic)
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
The Rainbow and the Kings
Author: Thomas Q. ReefePublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520334914
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1981.
Claiming the Stones, Naming the Bones
Author: Elazar BarkanPublisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 0892366737
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
These fourteen essays address controversies over a variety of cultural properties, exploring them from perspectives of law, archeology, physical anthropology, ethnobiology, ethnomusicology, history, and cultural and literary study. The book divides cultural property into three types: Tangible, unique property like the Parthenon marbles; intangible property such as folktales, music, and folk remedies; and communal "representations," which have lead groups to censor both outsiders and insiders as cultural traitors.
The Troubled Heart of Africa
Author: Robert B. EdgertonPublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312304867
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Connecting a tumultuous past with an uncertain present, this is the complete story of a region whose fate will affect an entire continent. photo insert.
The Geographical Journal
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Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 780
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Includes the Proceedings of the Royal geographical society, formerly pub. separately.
Literature of Travel and Exploration
Author: Jennifer SpeakePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135456631
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 1425
Book Description
Containing more than 600 entries, this valuable resource presents all aspects of travel writing. There are entries on places and routes (Afghanistan, Black Sea, Egypt, Gobi Desert, Hawaii, Himalayas, Italy, Northwest Passage, Samarkand, Silk Route, Timbuktu), writers (Isabella Bird, Ibn Battuta, Bruce Chatwin, Gustave Flaubert, Mary Kingsley, Walter Ralegh, Wilfrid Thesiger), methods of transport and types of journey (balloon, camel, grand tour, hunting and big game expeditions, pilgrimage, space travel and exploration), genres (buccaneer narratives, guidebooks, New World chronicles, postcards), companies and societies (East India Company, Royal Geographical Society, Society of Dilettanti), and issues and themes (censorship, exile, orientalism, and tourism). For a full list of entries and contributors, a generous selection of sample entries, and more, visit the Literature of Travel and Exploration: An Encyclopedia website.
Bulletin of the American Geographical Society
Author: American Geographical Society of New YorkPublisher:
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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 978
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Tirah, 1897
Author: Sir Charles Edward CallwellPublisher:
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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 204
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Out of Our Minds
Author: Johannes FabianPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520923935
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
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 meeting their hosts in extraordinary states influenced by opiates, alcohol, sex, fever, fatigue, and violence. Johannes Fabian presents fascinating and little-known source material, and points to its implications for our understanding of the beginnings of modern colonization. At the same time, he makes an important contribution to current debates about the intellectual origins and nature of anthropological inquiry. Drawing on travel accounts--most of them Belgian and German--published between 1878 and the start of World War I, Fabian describes encounters between European travelers and the Africans they met. He argues that the loss of control experienced by these early travelers actually served to enhance cross-cultural understanding, allowing the foreigners to make sense of strange facts and customs. Fabian's provocative findings contribute to a critique of narrowly scientific or rationalistic visions of ethnography, illuminating the relationship between travel and intercultural understanding, as well as between imperialism and ethnographic knowledge.
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