Drudges, Shrews, and Unfit Mothers
Among the first Europeans to encounter and settle on the southeastern coast of New Guinea, members of the London Missionary Society contributed a large corpus of publications concerning indigenous peoples from the mid-1870s until the rise of professional anthropology in the 1920s. While these works...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Brill
2018
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Social sciences and missions
Year: 2018, Volume: 31, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 7-33 |
Further subjects: | B
Missionaries
Papua New Guinea
women
B Missionnaires Papouasie Nouvelle-Guinée femmes |
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Summary: | Among the first Europeans to encounter and settle on the southeastern coast of New Guinea, members of the London Missionary Society contributed a large corpus of publications concerning indigenous peoples from the mid-1870s until the rise of professional anthropology in the 1920s. While these works focus mainly on the activities and concerns of men, women provide a key index of “civilization” relative to the working British middle class from which most missionaries came. This essay provides a survey of the portrayal of women in this literature over three partly overlapping periods, demonstrating a shift from racialist to moral discourses on the status of Papuan women – a shift that reflects transitions in both missionary and anthropological assumptions during this period. |
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ISSN: | 1874-8945 |
Contains: | In: Social sciences and missions
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/18748945-03101008 |