Processus d'acquisition et de transmission des ressources africaines dans les sources européennes du XVIIe au XIXe siècle
2005; Q24023140; Volume: 92; Issue: 346 Linguagem: Inglês
10.3406/outre.2005.4133
ISSN2275-4954
AutoresDominique Juhé-Beaulaton, Agnès Lainé,
Tópico(s)Migration, Identity, and Health
ResumoThis article is a first approach into how the African continent was integrated in networks of knowledge. Wefocus on methods of exchange and constitution of knowledge, and seek to distinguish the role of the various categories of actors, both European and African. These networks were organized step by step starting from the contributions of travellers, local intermediaries and around the development of learned societies whose activities could be encouraged or initiated by the states. Europeans, in their will to know new resources, encountered various difficulties - which were gradually overcome - on the material and technical aspects. While others, cultural, religious and political, were creating problems to have access to the local knowledge. However, Europeans could observe certain diseases and obtain information on mainly from popular knowledge. During the XIXth century African " medical material " treatises appeared. The structuration of research around the quinquina and other plants which could be used as substitute shows the processes of acquisition and transmission ofnew therapeutic resources.
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