François Levaillant (also Le Vaillant, born Vaillant) was the most influential early traveler to South Africa. His narrative illustrations of his travels, however, have not been widely studied, in part because many were not published in his travel books. Levaillant’s role as a founding figure of African anthropology has received increased attention, but illustrations of his first visit to the Gonaqua deserve greater scrutiny, in part because they differ so markedly from his written account. This article argues, following Matthys Bokhorst, that Levaillant conceptualized and produced most of the illustrations himself and concludes that he gave the illustrations an allegorical force as a way of re-viewing, re-considering and theorizing the significance of his visit and his role as observer and anthropologist.

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人类学的原始场景：Levaillant 参观 Gonaqua 的插图

François Levaillant（也叫Le Vaillant，出生于Vaillant）是南非最有影响力的早期旅行者。然而，他的旅行叙事插图并没有被广泛研究，部分原因是许多没有在他的旅行书中发表。Levaillant 作为非洲人类学奠基人的角色受到了越来越多的关注，但他第一次访问 Gonaqua 的插图值得更仔细地审视，部分原因是它们与他的书面描述大相径庭。本文继 Matthys Bokhorst 之后认为，Levaillant 自己概念化并制作了大部分插图，并得出结论认为，他赋予这些插图以寓言的力量，作为一种重新审视、重新考虑和理论化他访问的意义以及他作为观察家和人类学家。