Reassembling the strange: naturalists, missionaries, and the environment of nineteenth-century Madagascar

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Environmental origins -- Malagasy origins -- Framework of the book -- Chapter 2. Seeking the strange -- The tropical Eden and a scientific turn -- Exploration and the Malagasy -- The man-eating tree and scientific discovery -- Finding the strange -- Legitimizing folklore -...

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Main Author: Anderson, Thomas J. 1978- (Author)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: Lanham Boulder New York London Lexington Books [2018]
In:Year: 2018
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Madagascar / Missionary / Natural sciences / History 1800-1900
IxTheo Classification:AG Religious life; material religion
KBN Sub-Saharan Africa
RJ Mission; missiology
Further subjects:B Nature Social aspects (Madagascar)
B Naturalists (Madagascar) History 19th century
B Missionaries (Madagascar) History 19th century
B Natural History (Madagascar)
B Madagascar Colonial influence

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