Safari in Kansas: around the world with Mr and Mrs Johnson

In 1961 the town of Chanute, Kansas, became home to the Martin and Osa Johnson Safari Museum. Who are the Johnsons? What is this museum doing here? Why do the writers, who are scholars of colonial discourse and responses to it in Africa, find it a little creepy? Focuses in particular on the third qu...

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Published in:Ecumene (Sevenoaks, England) England), 2001-10, Vol.8 (4), p.493-496
Main Authors: Caminero-Santangelo, Byron, Myers, Garth Andrew
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
African art
Art museums
Chanute
Colonial history
Colonialism
Cultural geographies in practice
Culture
Human geography
Hunting
Kansas
Landscape
Libraries
Library collections
Movies
Museums
Nature
Safaris
U.S.A
Wilderness
Wildlife
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Summary:In 1961 the town of Chanute, Kansas, became home to the Martin and Osa Johnson Safari Museum. Who are the Johnsons? What is this museum doing here? Why do the writers, who are scholars of colonial discourse and responses to it in Africa, find it a little creepy? Focuses in particular on the third question, since it concerns the way an ideologically charged, American colonial vision of Africa is reenacted, inculcated and Americanized into the lived experience of Kansas students and citizens every day. (Quotes from original text)
ISSN:0967-4608
2058-3435