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Butterflies & Barbarians: Swiss Missionaries and Systems of Knowledge in South-East Africa
Butterflies Barbarians Swiss Missionaries and Systems of Knowledge in SouthEast Africa
Author: Patrick Harries
Swiss missionaries played a primary and little-known role in explaining Africa to the literate world in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This book emphasizes how these European intellectuals, brought to the deep rural areas of southern Africa by their vocation, formulated and ordered knowledge about the continent. Central to th...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780821417768
ISBN-10: 0821417762
Publication Date: 10/8/2007
Pages: 304
Edition: 1
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Publisher: Ohio University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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