Picturing Pity : : Pitfalls and Pleasures in Cross-Cultural Communication.‹BR›Image and Word in a North Cameroon Mission / / 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 r...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2007] ©2007 |
| Year of Publication: | 2007 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (368 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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