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Africa, Childhood of Man |
Lecture Outline
1. Images of Africa
A.Pre-19th-century Images: Terra Incognita
B. The Myth of the Dark Continent in the 19th Century
2. Anthropology and Colonialism
A. Time and the Other: Africa and the primitive
B. Anthropological myths about Africa: economic backwardness and tribalism
Sites of Interest
World
History Archives: History of Africa in general
World History Archives: West
Africa
WorldViews: Images of
Africa
Discoverers Web
Homepage - links and information on voyages of discovery
Mungo Park, TRAVELS INTO THE
INTERIOR OF AFRICA (1795)
David
Livingstone
Henry
M. Stanley
Candice Bradley's Heart of Darkness
Lecture
Keywords
The Dark Continent
tribalism
Edward Tylor
social evolutionary anthropology
"the doctrine of survivals"