Mimesis is an important human faculty and a fertile concept in Western intellectual traditions.
Colonialism is a critical and lasting event in the history of European societies and their …

A Vietnamese cook, a German journalist, and a Senegalese student—what did they have in
common? They were all suspicious persons kept under surveillance by French colonial …

Die Globalisierung hat eine Geschichte, aber sie hat auch eine Geographie. Die Autorin
beschreibt die Neuerfindung des Raumes im frühen 19. Jahrhundert. Es ist eine Geschichte …

The so-called “Saharan Divide” separating sub-Saharan Africa and North Africa into distinct
fields has a long and complicated history. Paradoxically, given its dense historiography, this …

In 1930 in Paris, the avant-garde journal Documents published photographs of a head and
neck wearing an eyeless black leather mask and studded collar.(Figure 1). As the …

La notion d'imitation a été au cœur du projet colonial de la iiie République. Loin de plaquer
les significations du terme en sociologie ou en anthropologie, les acteurs coloniaux ont mis …

This dissertation argues that between 1830 and 1914, with increasing intensity over time,
French Catholic missionaries sowed divisions among the European population of French …

In November 1930, the Frenchwoman Marcelle Hervé stepped off a steamship in the French
West African port of Dakar. She was carrying a package with her, the contents of which she …

Au croisement de la géographie médicale, politique et culturelle, l'article porte sur le cafard
colonial. Le cafard est un mal du pays qui apparaît dans les années 1880 au sein la Légion …

On the morning of 28 January 2013, just before the Franco-Malian recapture or liberation of
Timbuktu after ten months of rebel occupation, 1 the mayor of the city, Hallè Ousmane …