Primate time: Rousseau, Levaillant (1), Marais.(Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Francois Levaillant, Eugene Nielen Marais)(Critical essay)

From: Current Writing: Text and Reception in SouthernAfrica | Date: January 1, 2006| Author: Glenn, Ian | Copyright information

Abstract

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, drawing on accounts of the Cape, shaped arguments and discourses about animal and human nature in the nascent disciplines of ethology and anthropology. This paper examines how the discourses of ethology and anthropology mesh and separate in South Africa by looking at two of the most important early South African writers on primates: late eighteenth century French explorer Francois Levaillant and early twentieth century Afrikaans writer and...

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