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Mistaking Africa : curiosities and inventions of the American min d / Curtis Keim.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Boulder, CO : Westview Press, c2014.Edition: 3rd edDescription: xii, 234 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780813348940 (pbk.)
  • 0813348943 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 960 23
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Books - Open Access Books - Open Access MISR Library - Open Shelves 960 KEI (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 001270640

Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-226) and index.

Introduction -- Changing our mind about Africa -- How we learn -- Th e origins of "darkest Africa" -- "Our living ancestors": twentieth-cent ury 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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