Swiss missionaries played a primary and little-known role in
explaining Africa to the literate world in the late nineteenth and
early twentieth centuries. This book emphasizes how these European
intellectuals, brought to the deep rural areas of southern Africa
by their vocation, formulated and ordered knowledge about the
continent. Central to this group was Junod, who became a pioneering
collector in the fields of entomology and botany. He would later
examine African society with the methodology, theories, and
confidence of the natural sciences. On the way he came to depend on
the skills of African observers and collectors. Out of this work
emerged, in three stages between 1898 and 1927, an influential
classic in the field of South African anthropology, Life of a South
African Tribe.
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