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The Absence of the Missionary in African Ethnography, 1930-651

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Sjaak van der Geest  and
Jon P. Kirby
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There is scarcely one [African people]…which has not been affected, to a greater or less extent, by the work of the Christian missions, and among most of them organized communities of native Christians play an integral part in the social organization. No contemporary social study can afford to neglect this element, the form it takes, and its relations with the other groups with which it co-exists and interacts.

Beattie 1953, 178

There is perhaps no aspect of the African experience that has been analyzed with less objectivity than the Christian missionary effort.

Herskovits 1962, 204

I found it difficult, when actually in the field, not to feel disappointed at having to study the religion of the Kgatla by sitting through an ordinary Dutch Reformed Church service, instead of watching a heathen sacrifice to the ancestral spirits.

Schapera 1938, 27

Thus the missionaries and the colonial administrators and the British military recruiting officers were not really part of my story. I see now that this was a mistake.

Leach 1989, 4

An increasing number of studies highlight the important role played by Christian missionaries in the processes of change that occurred in African countries before independence. Fifteen years ago a bibliography listed no fewer than 2,859 publications on Christianity in Tropical Africa and their number has grown even more considerably in recent years (Ofori 1977). Both historians and social scientists have taken a keen interest in this issue (see Etherington 1983). But it has not always been so.

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African Studies Review , Volume 35 , Issue 3 , December 1992 , pp. 59 - 103
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This paper has benefited from suggestions made by many people. We are grateful to the late Edwin Ardener, John Beattie, Meier Fortes, and Audrey Richards, and to Godfrey Lienhardt, all of whom gave their comments on drafts which led to the present formulation. We would also like to thank Isaac Schapera, Jean La Fontaine and loan Lewis, who sent their written comments to us. Finally, we we would like to include Adam Jones and two anonymous readers who contributed to the final version of the article.

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