Mistaking Africa
by Keim, Curtis A.Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1999-07-15
Publisher(s): Westview Pr
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Summary
"For most Americans, the mention of Africa immediately conjures up images of safaris, ferocious animals, strangely dressed "tribesmen," and impenetrable jungles. Few think to question these perceptions"
Author Biography
Curtis Keim teaches African history, politics, and culture at Moravian College, Bethlehem, PA. Together with Enid Schildkrout, he is the author of African Reflections: Art from Northeastern Zaire and editor of The Scramble for Art in Central Africa. He has lived and traveled in Africa over the last thirty years.
Table of Contents
| Preface | |
| Acknowledgments | |
| Introduction | |
| Changing Our Mind About Africa | p. 3 |
| How We Learn | p. 13 |
| Evolutionism | |
| The Origins of "Darkest Africa" | p. 27 |
| "Our Living Ancestors": Twentieth-Century Evolutionism | p. 39 |
| Real Africa, Wise Africa | p. 53 |
| We Should Help Them | p. 71 |
| Further Misperceptions | |
| Cannibalism: No Accounting for Taste | p. 91 |
| Africans Live in Tribes, Don't They? | p. 97 |
| Safari: Beyond Our Wildest Dreams | p. 111 |
| Africa in Ads | p. 127 |
| New Directions | |
| Race and Culture: The Same and the Other | p. 147 |
| From Imagination to Dialogue | p. 157 |
| Notes | p. 165 |
| Works Cited | p. 181 |
| Index | p. 191 |
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