Missing links
Subtitle: the African and American worlds of R. L. Garner, primate collector
By: Jeremy Rich
Series: Race in the Atlantic world, 1700-1900; Race in the Atlantic world, 1700-1900
Publisher: The University of Georgia Press; University of Georgia Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Athens
Language: eng
Number of pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9780820340593; 9780820340609
Subjects: Apes; Primatologists; Africans; Racism; Collection and preservation; Americans; American Public opinion; Attitudes; Human-animal relationships; Biography; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The southern Gabonese coast in the age of Garner; title: Garner's animal business in Africa and America; title: Is the monkey man manly enough?; title: Race, knowledge, and colonialism in Garner's African writings; title: African animals for white supremacy; title: An American sorcerer in colonial Gabon; title: Aping civilization.