Reviewed by G.E.R. Lloyd (Needham Research Institute, Cambridge UK). This is a truly remarkable book. In most anthropological monographs the reader is given a detailed analysis of one particular collectivity, the circumstances of their lives, their kinship relations, social structures, myths, rituals, ways of making sense of the world and of their place in it.
missions and missionaries
Henn, “Kristapurāṇa: Translating the Name of God in Early Modern Goa”
Henn, Alexander. 2015. South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal 12 [Online Journal] Abstract: In the 16th and 17th centuries, Jesuit missionaries began to translate Christian doctrine …
Penner, The Ojibwe Renaissance
Penner, Robert. 2015. The Ojibwe Renaissance: Transnational Evangelicalism and the Making of an Algonquian Intelligentsia, 1812–1867. American Review of Canadian Studies http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02722011.2015.1013264 …
Napolitano, “Anthropology and traces”
Napolitano, Valentina. 2015. Anthropology and traces. Anthropological Theory 15(1): 47–67. Abstract: This article explores the trace as a methodological tool …
Vallikivi, “On the Edge of Space and Time”
Vallikivi, Laur. 2014. On the Edge of Space and Time: Evangelical Missionaries in the Post-Soviet Arctic. Journal of Ethnology and Folklorisitics 8(2): …
Handman, “Becoming the Body of Christ”
Handman, Courtney. 2014. Becoming the Body of Christ: Sacrificing the Speaking Subject in the Making of the Colonial Lutheran Church in New …
Barker, “The One and the Many”
Barker, John. 2014. The One and the Many: Church-Centered Innovations in a Papua New Guinean Community. Current Anthropology DOI: 10.1086/678291 Abstract: The emerging field of the …
Handman, “Critical Christianity”
Handman, Courtney. 2015. Critical Christianity: Translation and Denominational Conflict in Papua New Guinea (The Anthropology of Christianity). Berkeley: University of California …
Hovland, “Mission Station Christianity”
Hovland, Ingie. 2013. Mission Station Christianity: Norwegian Missionaries in Colonial Natal and Zululand, Southern Africa 1850-1890. Boston: Brill. Publisher’s Description: …
Crossland, “Signs of Mission: Material Semeiosis and Nineteenth-Century Tswana Architecture”
Crossland, Zoë. 2013. “Signs of Mission: Material Semeiosis and Nineteenth-Century Tswana Architecture.” Signs and Society 1(1):79-113. Abstract: The missionary encounter between the …