MISSIONARY EXPERTISE, SOCIAL SCIENCE, AND THE USES OF ETHNOGRAPHIC KNOWLEDGE IN COLONIAL GABON

From: History In Africa | Date: January 1, 2006| Author: Cinnamon, John M | Copyright information

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Missionary ethnographers provided expert knowledge during the formative years of nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century anthropology, but are generally relegated to the footnotes of academic anthropology.1 Colonial missionaries were, nevertheless, crucial producers of cultural practices, knowledge, and texts in the particular locations where they worked. Missionary linguists, for example, contributed to the standardization of regional variations through the production of writing sys...

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