A Politics of Presence
Subtitle: Contacts Between Missionaries and Waluguru in Late Colonial Tanganyika (Studies in Anthropology and History)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Routledge
Published: December 1, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 354
ISBN-13: 9789057023040
Subjects: African history: c 1500 to c 1900; Anthropology; Christian mission & evangelism; Cultural studies; Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic Church; Missionary Activities Of Specific Denominations; Roman Catholic Church; Social Science; Archaeology / Anthropology; Sociology; Tanzania; Anthropology - General; Social Science / Anthropology / General
First sentence: On the 27th of October, 1949, Dr. Adolf Melchior climbed along the Mbezi river up to Tegetero mission, high up on the Northern slopes of the Uluguru mountains, in what was then called Tanganyika.