A Politics of Presence: Contacts Between Missionaries and Walugru in Late Colonial Tanganyika
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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,...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:9057023040
ISBN13:9789057023040
Release Date:February 1999
Publisher:Routledge
Length:372 Pages
Weight:1.63 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 6.3" x 9.4"
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