The ambiguity of rapprochement
Subtitle: reflections of anthropologists on their controversial relationship with missionaries
By: edited by Roland Bonsen, Hans Marks, Jelle Miedema
Publisher: Focaal (in cooperation with the NSAV)
Published: 1990
Place of publication: Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Language: eng
Number of pages: 151
Subjects: Anthropological ethics; Anthropology; Field work; Methodology; Missionaries; Fieldwork
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction to a slumbering debate  -- Roland Bonsen, Hans Marks and Jelle Miedema; title: From antagonism to partnership : social scientists and missionary workers in a Latin American perspective  -- André Droogers; title: Missionaries and ethnography  -- A.A. Trouwborst; title: Anthropologists, missionaries and the "ethnographic present" : the confrontation between native and Christian religious representations in West New Guinea  -- Jelle Miedema; title: Mission impossible? Missionaries, anthropologists and the Mesoamerican Maya  -- Rien Ploeg; title: Anthropology and mission : towards a historical analysis of professional identity  -- Peter Pels; title: The culture in-between : anthropologist and missionary as partners  -- Walter van Beek; title: Anthropologists, missionaries and rationality -- Jan Abbink.