Africa as a living laboratory : empire, development, and the problem of scientific knowledge, 1870-1950 /

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Main Author: Tilley, Helen, 1968-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2011.
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Table of Contents:
  • An imperial laboratory : scientific societies, geopolitics, and territorial acquisitions
  • A development laboratory : the African Research Survey, the machinery of knowledge, and imperial coordination
  • An environmental laboratory : "native" agriculture, tropical infertility, and ecological models of development
  • A medical laboratory : infectious diseases, ecological methods, and modernization
  • A racial laboratory : imperial politics, race prejudice, and mental capacity
  • An anthropological laboratory : ethnographic research, imperial administration and magical knowledge
  • A living laboratory : ethnosciences, field sciences, and the problem of epistemic pluralism.