Butterflies & Barbarians: Swiss Missionaries and Systems of Knowledge in South-East Africa by Patrick Harries
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ISBN: 9780821417775
Publisher : Ohio University Press; 1st edition (October 8, 2007)
PapeSwiss 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 this group was Junod, who became a pioneering collector in the fields of entomology and botany.rback : 304 pages