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1 online resource (278 pages) |
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Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction: The Spiritual in the Secular; Missionaries as Scholarly and Literary Tropes; Outline of the Chapters; Missionaries as Scientists; Missionaries and the Academy; The Legacies of Missionary Science; 1. Natural Science and Naturvölker: Missionary Entomology and Botany; Exploration and the Systematization of Knowledge; Protestant Beginnings; New Missionaries; Missionary Foot Soldiers of Science; Knowledge and Its Uses; Local Knowledge; Conclusion; Select Bibliography |
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2. Missionary Linguistics on the Gold Coast: Wrestling with LanguageThe Linguistic Situation on the Mission Field; The Basel Mission and the Language Question on the Gold Coast; Language Choice in Akuapem; Wrestling with Language; Missionary Hans Nicolai Riis; Missionary Johann Gottlieb Christaller; The Impact of Christaller's "Language Work"; Conclusion; Select Bibliography; 3. Of Fetishism and Totemism: Missionary Ethnology and Academic Social Science in Early-Twentieth-Century Gabon; Methods and Institutional Affiliations; Fetish and Fetishism; Nassau and Fetishism |
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Totemism and AnthropologyTrilles and Fang Totemism; Conclusion; Select Bibliography; 4. Missionary Ethnographers and the History of Anthropology: The Case of G.T. Basden; Select Bibliography; 5. From Iconoclasm to Preservation: W.F.P. Burton, Missionary Ethnography, and Belgian Colonial Science; Public School Boy, Pentecostal Firebrand and Missionary; Belgian Colonial Science and Catholicism; Protestant Relations with the Belgian Colonial State; Burton, the CEM, and Missionary Science; Finding Inspiration: The Geographical Society, Tervuren, and Witwatersrand |
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Captured by a Genre: Burton's EthnographyVernacular as the Gateway to the Soul of the People; The Central African Has His Own Standard of Education; Conclusion; Select Bibliography; 6. Dora Earthy's Mozambique Research and the Early Years of Professional Anthropology in South Africa; Mission Skills and Motives for Dora Earthy's Research; Encouragement from South African Anthropologists; Scholarly Reaction to Valenge Women; Mission Theology from Anthropology; Conclusion; Select Bibliography |
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7. Ideology in Missionary Scholarly Knowledge in Belgian Congo: Aequatoria, Centre de recherches africanistes The Mission Station of Bamanya (RDC), 1937-2007; The Editors, Contributors, and Critics; The Mongo; Ideology, Theology, and Nationalism; Indigeneity and Anticolonialism; Ideologies and Scholarly Practices; Conclusion; Select Bibliography; 8. Christian Medical Discourse and Praxis on the Imperial Frontier: Explaining the Popularity of Missionary Medicine in Mwinilunga District, Zambia, 1906-1935; Hegemonic Missionary Medical Discourse; The Inefficacy of Mission Medicine |
| Notes |
Refashioning Missionary Discourse |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Missions -- Africa
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Missions
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Africa
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Maxwell, David
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| ISBN |
9781467435857 |
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1467435856 |
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