Title: Butterflies & Barbarians
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
Places: Southern Africa, Switzerland
People: Henri Alexandre Junod (1863-1934)