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Anthropologists and the missionary endeavour : experiences and reflections /

Title
Anthropologists and the missionary endeavour : experiences and reflections / Ad Borsboom and Jean Kommers (eds).
Publication
Saarbrücken : Verlag für Entwicklungspolitik, 2000.

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Additional Authors
  • Borsboom, Ad.
  • Kommers, J.
  • Nijmeegs Instituut voor Comparatieve Cultuur- en Ontwikkelingsstudies. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n90714604
Description
197 p. : ill.; 21 cm.
Series Statement
Nijmegen studies in development and cultural change, 0935-7173 ; v. 33
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Introduction / Ad Borsboom and Jean Kommers -- White Fathers and their sons: on the influence of missionaries on African ethnographers in Interlacustrine Africa / Albert Trouwborst -- A challenged perspective : missionary ethnography in West New Guinea / Sjoerd R. Jaarsma -- 'I am only an amateur' : almost sixty years of ethnographic and linguistic research on Flores, Indonesia / Marie-Antoinette Th. WIllemsen -- Cross with the totem pole: Tiwi material culture in missionary discourse and practice / Eric Venbrux -- Fragmentation of the Christian minority in Jordan: conversion, marriage and gender / Willy Jansen -- Hard labour: an anthropologist analyses missionary juvenile literature / Jean Kommers -- The arrival of the Catholic Church in Northwest Ayfat, Irian Jaya : local and missionary views / Louise Thoonen -- "Seek and ye shall find" : healing within a missionary context in Northwest Ayfat, Irian Jaya / Ien Courtens -- Polygyny and Christianity : local interpretations in Cameroon / Catrien Notermans.
ISBN
  • 3881567453
  • 9783881567459
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library