Abstract

In the 1860's, at the same time as British explorers were trying to discover the sources of the Nile, social explorers were finding their own Africa in the East End of London. In the accounts of travel, geographical distance is replaced by topographical depth, so that the explorer's path always leads into the »depths«, into the human »abyss«. In order to carry out this operation, the explorer adopts masquerade (cross-class dressing) as a research technique, through which he has the existential experience of communitas with the Other.

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