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Butterflies and Barbarians: Swiss Missionaries and Systems of Knowledge in South-East Africa
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The International Journal of African Historical Studies
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January 1, 2008
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Butterflies and Barbarians: Swiss Missionaries and Systems of Knowledge in South-East Africa. By Patrick Harries. Athens: Ohio University Press; Oxford: James Currey, 2007. Pp. xvii, 286; 30 illustrations. $26.95 paper.
Patrick Harries explores the relationship between Swiss missionaries (hailing from a noncolonial power) and their African counterparts in southeastern Africa, in what is now modern-day South Africa and Mozambique. In doing so, he illuminates the role that knowledge about Africans, their landscape, and their biota played in fashioning a Swiss identity, particularly vis-Ã -vis France. At the same time Harries illuminates the ways in which that knowledge helped to create ...
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