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1 online resource (538 pages) |
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Studies in Anthropology and History |
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Studies in anthropology and history.
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of Maps and Figures; List of Plates; Acknowledgments; One: Introduction: The Microphysics of Colonial Contact; The Mission of Ethnography: Ethnic Wholes and Colonial Dualities; Towards an Epistemology of Colonial Contact; Conversion, Initiation, Religion and Discipline; Contacting the Past; Two: The Mission as Movement, or: Creating and Crossing the Boundaries of 'Home' and 'Mission'; The "Sacrifice" of Dutch Catholics for the Missions; Conversion and Missionary Exoticism, 1931-1957 |
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New Home, New Identity: Monastic Discipline and Seminary CurriculumTo the Missions; Professional Competence, or: Learning How to Talk; Closure and Control at the Mission Station's Boundaries; Expansion and Exchange Across the Mission's Boundaries; Maintaining the Mission: Building, Economy and Travel; Maintaining Christians: The Sacraments; Conclusion; Three: Kizungu Rhythms: Luguru Christianity as Ngoma; Ngoma and the Initiation of Luguru Boys; Jando: The First Modern Ngoma; Missionary Sounds and Sensibilities; Cash Crops, Christianity and Indirect Rule |
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The Mediation of Luguru Christianity by NgomaConclusion; Four: Luguru Woman or Lawful Wife: Mwali, Marriage and the Mission; Male and Female Power in Uluguru; Female Initiation, Male Dominance and Practical Mimesis; Mwali and Marriage in the 1930s; Marriage and Cash; The Mwali and the Mission; Marriage, Christianity and Church Law; Conclusion: Initiation and Discipline; Five: From Mkubwa to Mwalimu: Mission School and the Commodification of Knowledge; Forging a Golden Chain: Mission School and Government; Bush School: Luguru Land and Mission Politics; Mkubwa, Catechist and Teacher |
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Bush and Primary School AttendanceDiscipline and Teacher Training; Conclusion; Six: White Magic: The Missionary in the Field of Uganga and Uchawi; Magic, Witchcraft and the Colonial Encounter; Uganga: Healing and Power; Uganga and the Missionary; Nguvumali the Medicine Hunter; Mumiani: Imaginations of Contact; Conclusion; Seven. Conclusion: The Underdevelopment of Revelation; Individuality and the Magic of Representation; Discipline, Initiation and Commodification; The Underdevelopment of Luguru Revelation; Appendices; References; Index |
| Summary |
Christian missions in Africa are commonly viewed as a blatant example of ethnocentrism. This stereotype partly exists because the day-to-day interaction between missionaries and Africans has so rarely been studied. This book shows how Africans and missionaries co-produced a Catholic Church in the Uluguru mountains of Eastern Tanzania in the late colonial period, thereby adapting each others' routines in the fields of initiation, education, magic, and religion. It explores how the presence of the mission resulted in a rift between spiritual and worldly magic, and in the underdevelopment of t |
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Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781134410224 |
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1134410220 |
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