Title:
Mistaking Africa : curiosities and inventions of the American mind / Curtis Keim.
Author:
Keim, Curtis A.
Publication Information:
Boulder, CO : Westview Press, c2014.
Call Number:
DT38.7 .K45 2014
Edition:
3rd ed.
ISBN:
9780813348940
9780813348957
Physical Description:
xii, 234 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
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Contents:
Introduction -- Changing our mind about Africa -- How we learn -- The origins of "darkest Africa" -- "Our living ancestors": twentieth-century evolutionism -- Where is the real Africa? -- We should help them -- Cannibalism: no accounting for taste -- Africans live in tribes, don't they? -- Safari: beyond our wildest dreams -- Africa in images -- Race and culture: the same and the other -- From imagination to dialogue.
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