Race Rescue

This paper examines Methodist missionary discourse in Papua at the turn of the nineteenth century, locating two themes: what I call a pathology of desire, to be found in the polemical missionary discourses directed at sexuality, immorality and licentiousness, and a pathology of culture, to be found...

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Main Author: Eves, Richard (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2018
In: Social sciences and missions
Year: 2018, Volume: 31, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 34-68
Further subjects:B Missions méthodistes Papouasie dépopulation domesticité genre
B Methodist missionaries Papua depopulation domesticity gender
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