Food for the Flames: Idols and Missionaries in Central Polynesia
Twenty-five years after Captain Cook, the London Missionary Society sent its first representatives to the South Seas. Their goal was to eradicate heathenism and idolatry, but unwittingly, they became agents for the preservation of Polynesian culture through their diligent recording of language and religious practices. They even preserved a number of religious artifacts, which they sent back to England for exhibition in the Mission Museum in London.Food for the Flames focuses on these artifacts, the idols that avoided the flames. With the scientist's belief in letting the evidence speak for itself, the author, a biochemist, has mined a wide ra…
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Weitere Autoren: Attenborough, David (Solist)
- ISBN: 978-1-907372-16-2
- EAN: 9781907372162
- Produktnummer: 10771820
- Verlag: Paul Holberton Pub
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
- Seitenangabe: 222 S.
- Masse: H28.4 cm x B22.4 cm x D2.8 cm 1'497 g
- Gewicht: 1497
- Sonstiges: Ab 22 J.
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