Encounter images in the meetings between Africa and Europe / edited by Mai Palmberg.

Contributor(s):

Palmberg, Mai

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Uppsala : Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, 2001.Description: 278 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:

9171064788

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DDC classification:

301.14 ENC

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Contents:

Questioning the Origins of the Negative Image of Africa in Medieval Europe / Annemette Kirkegaard An Eye-Witness, Hearsay, Hands-On Report from the Gold Coast: Ludewig F. Romer's Tilforladelig Efterretning om Kysten Guinea / Selena Axelrod Winsnes Hottentot, Bushman, Kaffir: The Making of Racist Stereotypes in 19th-Century Britain / Bernth Lindfors Labor Laws and Stereotypes: Images of the Khoikhoi in the Cape in the Age of Abolition / Zine Magubane "A Gentleman Went to Zanzibar": Racism and Humanism Revisited / Mai Palmberg A Voyeur's Paradise ... Images of Africa / Yvonne Vera Representing the Past in the Present: Memory-texts and Ndebele Identity / Bjorn Lindgren Gender Dimensions in the Images of Africans in Commercial Works of Art / I. Bolarinwa Udegbe Jungle Drums Striking the World Beat: Africa as an Image Factor in Popular Music / Johannes Brusila Beyond Black and White: Reinterpreting "the Norwegian Missionary Image of the Malagasy" / Karina Hestad Skeie Gendered Images of Africa? The Writings of Male and Female Missionaries / Hanna Mellemsether Encounter Images in the Meetings between Finland and South-West Africa/Namibia / Raisa Simola Monkey Business in the Congo / Nicolas Martin-Granel The Development Gaze: Visual Representation of Development in Information Material from Danida / Hanne Longreen I Often Tell People I Have Been to Africa ... Swedish-African Encounters through the Aid Relationship / Anna Wieslander Africa remains the absolute difference An interview / Valentin Y. Mudimbe I did not set out to deconstruct An interview / Terence Ranger Select annotated bibliography / Petra Smitmanis

Summary: Positive images of Africa contrast with negative images of misery, war and catastrophes often conveyed by the mass media. This selection of papers debate the images and stereotypes of Africa.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Book	Mzumbe University Main Campus Library	302.14 ENC (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		0017554

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-276).

Questioning the Origins of the Negative Image of Africa in Medieval Europe / Annemette Kirkegaard
An Eye-Witness, Hearsay, Hands-On Report from the Gold Coast: Ludewig F. Romer's Tilforladelig Efterretning om Kysten Guinea / Selena Axelrod Winsnes
Hottentot, Bushman, Kaffir: The Making of Racist Stereotypes in 19th-Century Britain / Bernth Lindfors
Labor Laws and Stereotypes: Images of the Khoikhoi in the Cape in the Age of Abolition / Zine Magubane
"A Gentleman Went to Zanzibar": Racism and Humanism Revisited / Mai Palmberg
A Voyeur's Paradise ... Images of Africa / Yvonne Vera
Representing the Past in the Present: Memory-texts and Ndebele Identity / Bjorn Lindgren
Gender Dimensions in the Images of Africans in Commercial Works of Art / I. Bolarinwa Udegbe
Jungle Drums Striking the World Beat: Africa as an Image Factor in Popular Music / Johannes Brusila
Beyond Black and White: Reinterpreting "the Norwegian Missionary Image of the Malagasy" / Karina Hestad Skeie
Gendered Images of Africa? The Writings of Male and Female Missionaries / Hanna Mellemsether
Encounter Images in the Meetings between Finland and South-West Africa/Namibia / Raisa Simola
Monkey Business in the Congo / Nicolas Martin-Granel
The Development Gaze: Visual Representation of Development in Information Material from Danida / Hanne Longreen
I Often Tell People I Have Been to Africa ... Swedish-African Encounters through the Aid Relationship / Anna Wieslander
Africa remains the absolute difference
An interview / Valentin Y. Mudimbe
I did not set out to deconstruct
An interview / Terence Ranger
Select annotated bibliography / Petra Smitmanis

Positive images of Africa contrast with negative images of misery, war and catastrophes often conveyed by the mass media. This selection of papers debate the images and stereotypes of Africa.

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