Picturing Pity : : Pitfalls and Pleasures in Cross-Cultural Communication.‹BR›Image and Word in a North Cameroon Mission / / Marianne Gullestad.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Gullestad, Marianne,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2007]; ©2007
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (368 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Figures --; Acknowledgements --; Introduction --; 1. Propaganda for Christ --; 2. Establishing a Goodness Regime --; 3. Imagining a Call from Africa --; 4. Reflections on Taking Photographs --; 5. God’s Sowers and Reapers --; 6. Women and Children: Both Marginal and Central --; 7. Muslim Men: Dangerous Rivals and Exotic Villains --; 8. Victims and Villains in a Feature Film from 1960 --; 9. From Religions Propaganda to Cultural Heritage --; 10. Goodness and Its Side-effects --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781782388807; 9783110998283
• DOI: 10.1515/9781782388807
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Marianne Gullestad.

Picturing Pity is the first full length monograph on missionary photography. Empirically, it is based on an in-depth analysis of the published photographs taken by Norwegian evangelical missionaries in Northern Cameroon from the early nineteen twenties, at the beginning of their activities in this region, and until today. Being part of a large international movement, Norway sent out more missionaries per capita than any other country in Europe. Marianne Gullestad's main contention is that the need to continuously justify their activities to donors in Europe has led to the creation and maintenance of specific ways of portraying Africans. The missionary visual rhetoric is both based on earlier visualizations and has over time established its own conventions which can now also be traced within secular fields of activity such as international development agencies, foreign policy, human relief organizations and the mass media. Picturing Pity takes part in the present "pictorial turn" in academic teaching and research, constituting visual images as an exciting site of conversation across disciplinary lines.