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EUROPEANS AND AFRICANS IN THE EARLY PERIOD OF PORTUGUESE EXPANSION IN AFRICA - THE ORGANIZATION AND COURSE OF THE FIRST ENCOUNTERS

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Tymowski M.

Hemispheres. Studies on Cultures and Societies

2010

issue 25

95-122

This article is about the European - African encounters on West African coast in the XVth century. The bases of sources are: the Zurara and Rui de Pina chronicles, a description of voyages of Ca da Mosto, a work of Joao de Barros, and as a supplement material descriptions of Duarte Pacheco, Diogo Gomes, Eustache Delafosse, chronicle of Garcia de Resende and documents from Portugaliae Monumenta Africana. In the initial part of the article, the author - using the psychological literature - specifies what conditions must be met duringt a contact between individuals or groups of people, in order to be considered as an encounter. These are: the willingness of both parties to enter into contact, the organized character of the contact, the specification of both parties' objectives, an approved time and space, the peaceful nature of contact and reciprocal subjective treatment of the parties.Three encounters have been described and analysed: Valarte - Guitenyia, Ca da Mosto - Budomel and Diogo de Azambuja - Caramansa. The author describes the places of each encounters, the objectives of the parties, the parties' ways of presenting themselves, their methods of conducting talks and course of the meetings. The author then compares these three cases: the collapse of the talks and a disaster in the first case, then successful encounter in the second case, till the emergence of elements of coercion and the restriction of African subjectivity, while maintaining the appearance of voluntary actions by either side, in the case of the latter.

EDITION OF THE DIARY OF THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL AND ETHNOLOGICAL CARAVAN OF THE EXPEDITION TO CENTRAL AFRICA IN 1907–1909 BY JAN CZEKANOWSKI

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Bar J., Tymowski M.

Asian and African Studies

2025

vol. 34

issue 1

81 - 92

The aim of this article is to present a new Polish publishing initiative related to the publication of the Diary of the anthropological-ethnological caravan of the expedition to Central Africa in 1907-1909, by Jan Czekanowski, an eminent Polish anthropologist. This publication contains rich source material, which has been provided with the necessary editorial apparatus and published in the original languages (German, French and fragments of texts in local languages) together with a translation into Polish. The two volumes of this publication, supplemented by a selection of photographs by the author, contain a total of 2350 pages. The descriptions of the material and spiritual culture of the peoples studied in the pages of the diary are a valuable source of research: the measurements taken for physical anthropologists, the extensive dictionary listings for linguists and the musical notations for musicologists. The myths about the origins of the peoples and dynasties under study recorded by Czekanowski provide excellent material for a comparative study of the role of myths in the formation of social bonds. The historical data recorded forms a valuable basis for the study of the history of the countries in this African region, and the observations of social relations at the turn of the century constitute a valuable contribution to the analysis of contemporary ethnic conflicts in the region.

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EUROPEANS AND AFRICANS IN THE EARLY PERIOD OF PORTUGUESE EXPANSION IN AFRICA - THE ORGANIZATION AND COURSE OF THE FIRST ENCOUNTERS

EDITION OF THE DIARY OF THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL AND ETHNOLOGICAL CARAVAN OF THE EXPEDITION TO CENTRAL AFRICA IN 1907–1909 BY JAN CZEKANOWSKI