Butterflies & Barbarians
Subtitle: Swiss Missionaries and Systems of Knowledge in South-East Africa
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Ohio University Press; James Currey; Weaver Press; Wits University Press
Published: October 8, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780821417775
Subjects: Africa - East; Africa - South - General; History / Africa / South / General; History; History - General History; Africa, Southern; Missionaries; Switzerland; History: World
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.