Picturing Pity
Pitfalls and Pleasures in Cross-Cultural Communication.Image and Word in a North Cameroon Mission
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 m…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-78238-880-7
- EAN: 9781782388807
- Produktnummer: 22573548
- Verlag: Berghahn Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
- Seitenangabe: 368 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 9'730 KB
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