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Butterflies and Barbarians: Swiss Missionaries and Systems of Knowledge in South-East Africa
Butterflies and Barbarians Swiss Missionaries and Systems of Knowledge in SouthEast Africa
Author: Patrick Harries
The Swiss missionaries played a primary role in explaining Africa to the literate world in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This book emphasises 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 this group was ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780852559840
ISBN-10: 0852559844
Publication Date: 9/1/2007
Pages: 312
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Publisher: James Currey
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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