Mistaking Africa : curiosities and inventions of the American mind / Curtis Keim.

Author: Keim, Curtis A.

Edition Statement:3rd ed.

Imprint:Boulder, CO : Westview Press, 2013.

Descriptionxiii, 234 p.: ill. ; 23 cm.

Note:Introduction -- Changing our mind about Africa -- How we learn -- The origins of "darkest Africa" -- "Our living ancestors": twentieth-century evolutionism -- Where is the real Africa? -- We should help them -- Cannibalism: no accounting for taste -- Africans live in tribes, don't they? -- Safari: beyond our wildest dreams -- Africa in images -- Race and culture: the same and the other -- From imagination to dialogue.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.

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