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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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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Brill
2018
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Social sciences and missions
Année: 2018, Volume: 31, Numéro: 1/2, Pages: 34-68 |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
Missions méthodistes
Papouasie
dépopulation
domesticité
genre
B Methodist missionaries Papous depopulation domesticity gender |
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Volltext (Verlag) |
| Résumé: | 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 in their polemical discourses against abortion, infanticide and child-rearing practices. Together, these pathologies were seen as the main causes of population decline. The two discourses, constantly at play, produce a doubled image of Papuan women – the fallen woman and the bad mother – which, it was considered, necessitated the intervention of “a civilising mission.” This involved race rescue – the isolation of those thought vulnerable (children and young women) on the mission station, away from the dangers of the villages, at the same time instilling in them their own notions of sexual morality, and above all the training of Papuan women in European models of motherhood and domesticity, so they would become good wives and mothers. |
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| ISSN: | 1874-8945 |
| Contient: | In: Social sciences and missions
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/18748945-03101009 |