Saying that the image of Africa in the West is negative is stating the obvious but explaining nothing. This book is about understanding how the images have evolved in the encounters between Africa and Europe over time. It shows a greater variety than is usually assumed on the two basic European themes of romanticizing “the primitive” and looking down on “the backward”. The contributions to this book have been produced within the research project “Cultural Images in and of Africa” at the Nordic Africa Institute and deal with history, music, missionary writing, development aid discourse, commercial handicraft, popular literature, and travel writing. Also included are two special interviews with scholars who have made an important impact on the debate, Terence Ranger and Valentin Y. Mudimbe, and the text of an address on Africa images in European literature given by the Zimbabwean author Yvonne Vera.
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Mai Palmberg is a political scientist from Finland, and works at the Nordic Africa Institute in Uppsala. She is coordinator of a research and network project "Cultural Images in and of Africa" and has conducted and edited interviews for "The State of the Arts in Zimbabwe. Some Notes from 2002-2004".
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It is something of an axiom that today's images of Africa in Europe are largely negative. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
development gaze, courtly singers, missionary material, missionary map, colonial library, vagrancy legislation, mission discourse, popular music studies, hook deals, missionary texts, mission journals, scholarship programmes, popular music styles, critical translation, encounter images, public texts Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
South Africa, Guss Mattsson, West Africa, New York, Miss Sanne, Pathisa Nyathi, Cape Town, Mission Magazine, Dagens Tidning, Gold Coast, Sartjee Baartman, Hottentot Venus, Cecil Rhodes, Tourist Gaze, Martha Sanne, North Africa, Finnish Missionary Society, Ibn Battuta, Norwegian Missionary Society, Basil Davidson, Brazzaville Beach, John Philip, Mai Palmberg, British Isles, David Livingstone New!
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development gaze, courtly singers, missionary material, missionary map, colonial library, vagrancy legislation, mission discourse, popular music studies, hook deals, missionary texts, mission journals, scholarship programmes, popular music styles, critical translation, encounter images, public texts Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
South Africa, Guss Mattsson, West Africa, New York, Miss Sanne, Pathisa Nyathi, Cape Town, Mission Magazine, Dagens Tidning, Gold Coast, Sartjee Baartman, Hottentot Venus, Cecil Rhodes, Tourist Gaze, Martha Sanne, North Africa, Finnish Missionary Society, Ibn Battuta, Norwegian Missionary Society, Basil Davidson, Brazzaville Beach, John Philip, Mai Palmberg, British Isles, David Livingstone New!
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- The Tourist Gaze (Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society) by John Urry on 5 pages
- Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa: Including a Sketch of Sixteen Years' Residence in the Interior of Africa (Volume 2) by David Livingstone on 4 pages
- Travels And Researches In South Africa by Dr. David Livingstone on 4 pages
- UNESCO General History of Africa, Vol. I, Abridged Edition: Methodology and African Prehistory by Joseph Ki-Zerbo on page 13, page 20, and page 21
- Culture and Imperialism by Edward W. Said on page 113, page 114, and page 205
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