David Livingstone's visit to Cambridge in 1857 was seen as much as a scientific event as a religious one. But he was by no means alone among missionaries in integrating mission with science and other fields of research. Rather, many missionaries were remarkable, pioneering polymaths.
This collection of essays explores the ways in which late-nineteenth- and twentieth-century missionaries to Africa contributed to various academic disciplines, such as linguistics, ethnography, social anthropology, zoology, medicine, and many more. This volume includes an introductory chapter by the editors and eleven chapters that analyze missionary research and its impact on knowledge about African contexts. Several themes emerge, including many missionaries' positive views of indigenous discourses and the complicated relationship between missionaries and professional anthropologists.
Contributors:
John Cinnamon
Erika Eichholzer
Natasha Erlank
Deborah Gaitskell
Patrick Harries
Walima T. Kalusa
John Manton
David Maxwell
John Stuart
Dmitri van den Bersselaar
Honoré Vinck

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Introduction: The Spiritual in the Secular
1. Natural Science and Naturvölker: Missionary Entomology and Botany
2. Missionary Linguistics on the Gold Coast: Wrestling with Language
3. Of Fetishism and Totemism: Missionary Ethnology and Academic Social Science in Early-Twentieth-Century Gabon
4. Missionary Ethnographers and the History of Anthropology: The Case of G. T. Basden
5. From Iconoclasm to Preservation: W. F. P. Burton, Missionary Ethnography, and Belgian Colonial Science
6. Dora Earthy’s Mozambique Research and the Early Years of Professional Anthropology in South Africa
7. Ideology in Missionary Scholarly Knowledge in Belgian Congo: Aequatoria, Centre de recherches africanistes; The Mission Station of Bamanya (RDC), 1937-2007
8. Christian Medical Discourse and Praxis on the Imperial Frontier: Explaining the Popularity of Missionary Medicine in Mwinilunga District, Zambia, 1906-1935
9. Strange Bedfellows: The International Missionary Council, the International African Institute, and Research into African Marriage and Family
10. Dorothea Lehmann and John V. Taylor: Researching Church and Society in Late Colonial Africa
11. Mission, Clinic, and Laboratory: Curing Leprosy in Nigeria, 1945-67
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