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- Title
Cultural geographies in practice, Safari in Kansas: around the world with Mr and Mrs Johnson.
- Authors
Caminero-Santangelo, B.; Myers, G.A.
- Abstract
The tiny town of Chanute, Kansas, two hours south of Kansas City, is home to the Martin and Osa Johnson Safari Museum. Two years ago, we were on a weeklong bus tour of Kansas strongly suggested for new faculty at the University of Kansas. The tour spent an hour inside the safari museum, which both sparked our interest and left us with a number of questions. What is this museum doing in this Kansas small town in the midst of fields of wheat, rolling prairies, and the square grid roadways of the township-and-range Middle West? Who are Martin and Osa Johnson? And why does this museum seem a little creepy to us? In this essay, we want to explore answers to these questions. As scholars of colonial discourse and responses to it in Africa, we are particularly concerned with the third question, since it brings us to how colonial discursive tactics and representations of Africa are re-enacted, inculcated and Americanized into the lived experience – the cultural geographies in practice – of Kansas students and citizens every day.
- Subjects
KANSAS; CHANUTE (Kan.); UNITED States; GEOGRAPHICAL museums; NATURAL history museums
- Publication
ECUMENE, 2001, Vol 8, Issue 4, p493
- ISSN
0967-4608
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/096746080100800406