A Discursive Analysis of a Century of Anthropological Writings on Missionary Ethnographers

This article examines discussions of missionaries penned by anthropologists and existing in disciplinary consciousness. Questions of alterity, distance and sameness, the potentially exploitative effects of ethnography, and the uncomfortable colonialist underpinnings of both missionary and anthropolo...

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Main Author: Cooper, Travis Warren (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Berghahn [2018]
In: Religion and society
Year: 2018, Volume: 9, Issue: 1, Pages: 68-85
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Missionary / Ethnologist / Report / Scholarly publishing / Ethnology / Discourse
Further subjects:B Travel
B ethnographic method
B history of anthropology
B Colonialism
B disciplinary formation
B Anthropology of religion
B Christian Missions
Online Access: Volltext (Verlag)
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