Patrick Harries is professor of African history at the University of Basel, Switzerland. David Maxwell is Dixie Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Cambridge University and Fellow of Emmanuel College.
Contributors
p. xi
Acknowledgments
p. xiv
Abbreviations
p. xv
Introduction: The Spiritual in the Secular
p. 1
Natural Science and Naturvölker: Missionary Entomology and Botany
p. 30
Missionary Linguistics on the Gold Coast: Wrestling with Language
p. 72
Of Fetishism and Totemism: Missionary Ethnology and Academic Social Science in Early-Twentieth-Century Gabon
p. 100
Missionary Ethnographers and the History of Anthropology: The Case of G. T. Basden
p. 135
From Iconoclasm to Preservation: W. F. P. Burton, Missionary Ethnography, and Belgian Colonial Science
p. 155
Dora Earthy's Mozambique Research and the Early Years of Professional Anthropology in South Africa
p. 187
Ideology in Missionary Scholarly Knowledge in Belgian Congo: Aequatoria, Centre de recherches africanistes; The Mission Station of Bamanya (RDC), 1937-2007
p. 221
Christian Medical Discourse and Praxis on the Imperial Frontier: Explaining the Popularity of Missionary Medicine in Mwinilunga District, Zambia, 1906-1935
p. 245
Strange Bedfellows: The International Missionary Council, the International African Institute, and Research into African Marriage and Family
p. 267
Dorothea Lehmann and John V. Taylor: Researching Church and Society in Late Colonial Africa
p. 293
Mission, Clinic, and Laboratory: Curing Leprosy in Nigeria, 1945-67
p. 313
Index
p. 335
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