Overseas Americans in Southeast Asia: Fact in Fiction
Americans abroad are becoming a national concern of great importance because of the enormous numbers of people and amounts of money involved in American aid programs. Reports of waste and ineffectiveness multiply. Not only newspaper accounts, government reports, and the statements of social scientis...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sage Publishing
1962
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Practical anthropology
Year: 1962, Volume: 9, Issue: 2, Pages: 60-84 |
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| Summary: | Americans abroad are becoming a national concern of great importance because of the enormous numbers of people and amounts of money involved in American aid programs. Reports of waste and ineffectiveness multiply. Not only newspaper accounts, government reports, and the statements of social scientists have been contributing to the protest, but there has also been a rash of novels, often effectively (though not always accurately) portraying the situation. Many of these novels have included missionaries within their portrayal, and all which are well done are most pertinent to missionaries who are a part of the overseas community. In this article Prof. Hart analyzes the novels for the assumptions they show and for the patterns that show up in the different characterizations. In effect, it is a study of what the novelists think Americans abroad are like, and what they should be like. |
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: Practical anthropology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/009182966200900202 |