Charting the Frontier
Indigenous Geography, Arab-Nyamwezi Caravans, and the East African Expedition of 1856-59
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9370367 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Adrian S Wisnicki (0000-0002-9145-3309, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 51 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 103-137 |
| Publication date | 2008-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Victorian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0042-5222 • E-ISSN: 1527-2052 |
| Publisher | Indiana University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2979/vic.2008.51.1.103 |
| OpenAlex | W2024124457 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 40 |
This article develops a cross-cultural and material analysis of the work of the East African Expedition of 1856-59, during which Richard Burton and John Speke "discovered" Lakes Tanganyika and Victoria. It explores the well-developed Arab-African trading network within which the EAE operated and suggests that the network, while facilitating the expedition's survey work, likewise circumscribed its findings. The result, best evidenced in the EAE's four published maps, was an attempt to efface the Arab-African basis of the expedition's cartography by writing the narrative of the EAE in place of existing Arab-African material and cultural reality. In this way the EAE's maps showcase the early development of a key imperial cartographical strategy that would, later in the century, have a profound impact on the colonial partitioning of Africa
Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Colonialism · Ethnology · Frontier · Geography · Indigenous · Literature · Narrative · Sociology · Work (physics · Anthropology · Ecology · Engineering · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · Historical Geography and Geographical Thought · History · Travel Writing and Literature
Abdulrazak Gurnah’s African Ocean
Real Men/Savage Nature
Hidden histories made visible? Reflections on a geographical exhibition
Spectrally Illuminating the Hidden Material History of David Livingstone's 1870 Field Diary
Mapping Agricultural Change in Eastern Africa
Afterword
Conversations along the Mbwemkuru
Victorian Field Notes from the Lualaba River, Congo
Colonial Schemes and African Realities
Partitioned Africans
The Highly Civilized Man
The History
The cartographic eye
Zamani a Survey of East African History
Africans
A History of Sub-Saharan Africa
Carriers of Culture
A Modern History of Tanganyika
Cartography Without Progress
Extracts from Reports by Captains Burton and Speke, of the East African Expedition, on Their Discovery of Lake Ujiji, &c., in Central Africa
The Sad Story of Burton, Speke, and the Nile; or, Was John Hanning Speke a Cad
Observations on the Geography of Central Africa
On the Nile and Its Tributaries
Zanzibari Influence at the Southern End of Lake Victoria
The Geography of N'yassi, or the Great Lake of Southern Africa, Investigated; With an Account of the Overland Route from the Quanza in Angola to the Zambezi in the Government of Mozambique
W. D. Cooley, the RGS and African Geography in the Nineteenth Century
Unraveling Speke
A Coasting Voyage from Mombasa to the Pangani River; Visit to Sultan Kimwere; And Progress of the Expedition into the Interior
Travels, Researches and Missionary Labours During an Eighteen Years' Residence in Eastern Africa
Out of Our MindsReason and Madness in the Exploration of Central Africa
Slaves, Spices and Ivory in Zanzibar
The Sources of the Nile
Impure and Worldly Geography
The (re)making of the western ‘geographical tradition’
Arab versus European
Forgotten Caravan Towns in 19th Century Tanzania
Missionary travels and researches in South Africa
The Devil drives. A Life of Sir Richard Burton
General Rigby, Zanzibar and the Slave Trade
The Myth of Shangri-La
The Scramble for Africa
Gender, Geography, and Empire
| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,64 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2026 (15) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |