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L’Homme Exotique dans Les Manuels Belges de Geographie Edites en Francais.

L’Homme Exotique dans Les Manuels Belges de Geographie Edites en Francais. “Exotic Man as Seen in the French Language Editions of Belgian Geography Handbooks”.A critical study of geography handbooks for schools dating back to 1880, and centred on one aspect at human geography: physical variety and cultural differences. The author retraces the portrait of “the other man” as this has been presented to pupils. The handbooks express a very ethnocentric discourse, marked by determinism and social evolutionism. Large sections of the text are nothing else than justifications of colonialism in Central Africa. Darwinian theory on evolution has not been taken into account as an explanation of the diversity in humankind, the latter having been considered only under the angle of “race”. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Afrika Focus Brill

L’Homme Exotique dans Les Manuels Belges de Geographie Edites en Francais.

Afrika Focus , Volume 2 (3-4): 29 – Jan 12, 1986

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Brill
Copyright
Copyright © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
0772-084X
eISSN
2031-356X
DOI
10.1163/2031356X-0020304002
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Abstract

“Exotic Man as Seen in the French Language Editions of Belgian Geography Handbooks”.A critical study of geography handbooks for schools dating back to 1880, and centred on one aspect at human geography: physical variety and cultural differences. The author retraces the portrait of “the other man” as this has been presented to pupils. The handbooks express a very ethnocentric discourse, marked by determinism and social evolutionism. Large sections of the text are nothing else than justifications of colonialism in Central Africa. Darwinian theory on evolution has not been taken into account as an explanation of the diversity in humankind, the latter having been considered only under the angle of “race”.

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Afrika FocusBrill

Published: Jan 12, 1986

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