Person and Myth
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Person and Myth

Maurice Leenhardt in the Melanesian World

  1. 284 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
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eBook - ePub

Person and Myth

Maurice Leenhardt in the Melanesian World

About this book

Originally published in 1982, James Clifford's analytical biography of Maurice Leenhardt (1878 - 1954)--missionary, anthropologist, founder of French Oceanic studies, historian of religion, and colonial reformer--received wide critical acclaim for its insight into the colonial history of anthropology. Drawing extensively on unpublished letters and journals, Clifford traces Leenhardt's life from his work as a missionary on the island of New Caledonia (1902 - 1926) to his subsequent return to Paris where he became an academic anthropologist at the Ecole pratique des hautes etudes, where he followed Marcel Mauss and was succeeded in 1951 by Claude Levi-Strauss.
Originally published in 1982, James Clifford's analytical biography of Maurice Leenhardt (1878 - 1954)--missionary, anthropologist, founder of French Oceanic studies, historian of religion, and colonial reformer--received wide critical acclaim for its ins

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Illustrations
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Some Misleading Terms
  8. Introduction
  9. CHAPTER I The Education of a Missionary
  10. CHAPTER II La Grande Terre
  11. CHAPTER III Getting Involved
  12. CHAPTER IV Do Neva
  13. CHAPTER V Translations
  14. CHAPTER VI War and Rebellion
  15. CHAPTER VII Evangelical Horizons
  16. INTRODUCTION TO PART TWO
  17. CHAPTER VIII The Making of Ethnographic Texts
  18. CHAPTER IX The Canaque Professor
  19. CHAPTER X Gens de la Grande Terre
  20. CHAPTER XI Structures of the Person
  21. CHAPTER XII The Colonial World
  22. CHAPTER XIII Participation and Myth
  23. CHAPTER XIV Plenitude
  24. Afterword
  25. Abbreviations
  26. Notes
  27. Bibliography of Works By and About Maurice Leenhardt
  28. Index