PDF-(BOOK)-Out of Our Minds: Reason & Madness in the Exploration of Central Africa

Explorers and ethnographers in Africa during the period of colonial expansion are usually assumed to have been guided by rational aims such as the desire for scientific knowledge fame or financial gain This book the culmination of many years of research on nineteenthcentury exploration in Central Africa provides a new view of those early European explorers and their encounters with Africans Out of Our Minds shows explorers were far from rationaloften meeting their hosts in extraordinary states influenced by opiates alcohol sex fever fatigue and violence Johannes Fabian presents fascinating and littleknown source material and points to its implications for our understanding of the beginnings of modern colonization At the same time he makes an important contribution to current debates about the intellectual origins and nature of anthropological inquiry Drawing on travel accountsmost of them Belgian and Germanpublished between 1878 and the start of World War I Fabian describes encounters between European travelers and the Africans they met He argues that the loss of control experienced by these early travelers actually served to enhance crosscultural understanding allowing the foreigners to make sense of strange facts and customs Fabians provocative findings contribute to a critique of narrowly scientific or rationalistic visions of ethnography illuminating the relationship between travel and intercultural understanding as well as between imperialism and ethnographic knowledge. 1 CD6 SE Fig 1 CD XT SE Fig 1 CD8 SE Fig 1 CD ransport brPage 3br 325 1015 Reading 325 325 Fig 3 17 59 57 Fig 2 1 1 1 brPage 4br Cyrus CD 6 SE 2 CD 8 SE 2 CD XT SE 2 CD T TRANSPORT User Instructions 1 IMPORTANT Read before operating this equipme brPage 1br OUT 12 OUT 34 OUT 56 OUT 7 OUT KICK SNARE OM OM HI GAN UKELELE ZITHER BANJO ELEC GTR OUST GTR OH R OH L OWBELL GAN HI VO AL BASS DIRE BASS MP SOFT S N R SOFT S N L AN G S NTH THERE Facial hair and you.. Making use of uselessness.. Rorschach / Abstract.. Stop this madness.. YOUR FACE:. It is what you make it. . Home grown.. Stop this madness.. As you may or may not be aware, I’m growing a beard. . 1. st. International Health Humanities Conference . Madness and Literature, . The University of Nottingham, 6. th . – 8. th. August 2010. Saara Jäntti, . PhD student,Department of Languages/English, . ambiguity. contradiction. paradox. irony. overstatement. understatement. Denise Stanley. Ambiguity. A technique by which a writer deliberately suggests two or more different, and sometimes conflicting, meanings in a work.. We now experience the full force of Lear’s madness. These next 126 lines are among the most emotionally powerful and conceptually challenging in all of Shakespeare’s plays, for the insanity has a strange kind of internal logic. Mixed in with the madness there are statements of great wisdom, born of suffering, and moments of real poignancy as the two battered old men recognize each other and reach out for companionship. . AS Coursework. Madness. Madness is a key idea in Regeneration. Madness is exhibited through symptoms such as . mutism. , fear of blood, and Sassoon's angry anti-war declaration. Because such behaviour is deemed unacceptable Sassoon is given the label "shell-shocked" to discredit his views. . Alice in Wonderland. Much Madness is . divinest. Sense -. To a discerning Eye -. Much Sense - the starkest Madness -. `Tis. the Majority. In this, as All, prevail -. Assent - and you are sane -. Demur - you`re straightaway dangerous -. Madness. “. The Tell-Tale Heart” shows the madness of one man who is driven to murder. “The Tell-Tale Heart” . shows how madness drives . one man . to . murder. Madness can drive people to do heinous things. . . Essentials to the Story. Main Characters. The Narrator The Old Man. Setting. “The Tell-Tale Heart” is written as a . flashback. : a narrator is recounting events from the past.. Some thoughts to ponder.. "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." Aristotle. "The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.". How did we get here?. Substance Dualism. According to the . substance dualist. , there are two kinds of substances: physical substances and mental substances.. Physical Properties. Physical substances have physical properties:. Warm-Up Question. :. Examine the Unit 7 Organizer & answer the following questions:. What were 2 effects of exploration?. How did gov’t change because of the Renaissance & Age of Exploration?. By Ms. Schoettlin. Reason for Exploration. Wanted to find wood for Viking settlements in Greenland.. Accomplishment. First European to set foot in North American, around Newfoundland in Canada. . 1000 AD.