Publication

2007-10-08 - Ohio University Press

Language

English

Word Count

76,000 words, Guess

Page Count

304 pages

Physical Format

Paperback

Identifiers

  • ISBN-100821417770
  • ISBN-139780821417775
  • Library of Congress Control Number2007300229
  • OCLC Control Number64313959
  • Better World Books9780821417775
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Classifications

  • LCCBV3555 .H29 2007
  • LCCBV3555 .H37 2007

Description

"Swiss missionaries played an important 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 deep rural areas of south-eastern Africa by their vocation, formulated and ordered knowledge about the continent."--Jacket.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Butterflies & Barbarians: Swiss Missionaries and Systems of Knowledge in South-East AfricaPaperbackOhio University Press2007-10-08
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