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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).
ISBN
3881567453
Published
Saarbrücken : Verlag für Entwicklungspolitik, 2000.
Physical Description
197 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 20, 2006
Series
Nijmegen studies in development and cultural change v. 33.
Nijmegen studies in development and cultural change, v. 33
Bibliography
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.
Subjects (Local Yale)
Also listed under
Kommers, J.
Borsboom, Ad.
Nijmeegs Instituut voor Comparatieve Cultuur- en Ontwikkelingsstudies.
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