Readings in missionary anthropology.
Publisher: Practical Anthropology
Published: 1967
Place of publication: Tarrytown, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 368
Subjects: Missions -- Theory.
Other titles: Practical anthropology.; Missionary anthropology.
Notes: Bibliographical footnotes.
Includes bibliographical references.
Consists of articles reprinted from Practical anthropology, 1953-1960.
Table of contents: title: Anthropological study and missionary scholarship / William A. Smalley; title: Mariology in Latin America / Eugene A. Nida; title: The transformation of God and the conversion of man / William D. Reyburn; title: The Roman Catholic, communist, and Protestant approach to social structure : The relationship of social structure to the problems of evangelism in Latin America / Eugene A. Nida; title: Mushroom ritual versus Christianity / Eunice Pike, Florence Cowan; title: Gbeya prescientific attitudes and Christianity / William J. Samarin; title: Vocabulary and the preaching of the Gospel / William A. Smalley; title: Polygamy, economy, and Christianity in the eastern Cameroun : Kaka kinship, sex, and adultery / William D. Reyburn; title: A Franco-african cross-cultural clash / Robert C. Blaschke; title: Drunkenness in indigenous religious rites / Eugene A. Nida; title: Planting the church in a disintegrating society / Lois Sorensen, William A. Smalley; title: The moral implications of social structure / Paul Abrecht, William A. Smalley; title: Conversion and culture change / Dale W. Kietzman; title: A culturally relevant witness / John Beekman; title: The role of language in contemporary Africa / Eugene A. Nida; title: Cultural implications of an indigenous church : What are indigenous churches like? / William A. Smalley; title: Conflicts and contradictions in African Christianity : Motivations for Christianity: an African conversation : Meaning and restructuring: a cultural process : The spiritual, the material, and the western reaction in Africa / William D. Reyburn; title: The Christian concept of forgiveness and Anang morality / John C. Messenger; title: Political systems and African church polity / Mahlon M. Hess; title: The church, male and female / William D. Reyburn; title: Individualism and the Huichol church / Joseph E. Grimes, Barbara Grimes; title: The Gospel and the cultures of Laos / William A. Smalley; title: The Meo - an incipient church / G. Linwood Barney; title: Are we really monotheists? / Eugene A. Nida; title: Pagan and indian concepts in a Mexican indian culture / William L. Wonderly; title: Minimizing religious syncretism among the Chols / John Beekman; title: The world is too much with us : The world is too much with us- II : Respect and ethnocentrism / William A. Smalley; title: The missionary and the evaluation of culture : The missionary and cultural diffusion / William D. Reyburn; title: The missionary's role in culture change / Dale W. Kietzman, William A. Smalley; title: The missionary role in "marriage palavers" / Ann Beardslee, Eugene A. Nida; title: Some questions about missionary medicine / William A. Smalley; title: How do I adjust to giving? / Albert Buckwalter, Joseph E. Grimes, William D. Reyburn; title: Proximity or neighborlines? / William A. Smalley; title: The role of cultural anthropology in Christian missions / Eugene A. Nida; title: Social anthropology, Christian missions, and the indians of Latin America / William L. Wonderly; title: Acculturation survey of the Dansalan junior college / David L. Hamm, Batua A. Macaraya; title: Applied anthropology among the Sierra Quechua of Ecuador / Marie Fetzer Reyburn; title: Don't learn that language! / William D. Reyburn; title: Ethnographic questions for Christian missionaries / Joseph E. Grimes; title: Making and keeping anthropological field notes / William A. Smalley.