| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 107.5

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Book Review

Sub-Saharan Africa

Johannes Fabian. Out of Our Minds: Reason and Madness in the Exploration of Central Africa. (The Ad. E. Jensen Lectures at the Frobenius-Institut, University of Frankfurt.) Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. 2000. Pp. xv, 320.

It is only slightly hyperbolic to say that soon we may be able to teach an entire course on the Western encounter with Africa using only the works of Johannes Fabian and not miss much. His previous books include work on art, language, and time, and in this latest contribution, he provides critical readings of several major exploration texts of the early imperial period. Fabian is not content to criticize these travel stories by consigning them to a discredited, racist, imperial past; instead he makes a relentless effort to relate the practices of the imperial travelers to ongoing anthropological practices. It is this effort that gives his book its distinctive value. . . .

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