An edition of Butterflies & Barbarians (2006)
Butterflies & Barbarians
Swiss Missionaries and Systems of Knowledge in South-East Africa
By Patrick Harries
Publish Date
October 8, 2007
Publisher
Ohio University Press
Language
eng
Pages
304
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: Missionaries, Discovery and exploration, Missions, africa, south, Missions, europe, Africa, discovery and exploration, Acculturation, Africa, history, African literature, history and criticism, Missions, africa, Schweizer, Discoveries in geography
People: Henri Alexandre Junod (1863-1934)
Places: Southern Africa, Switzerland