Collecting while converting: missionaries and ethnographics
This paper concerns an understudied yet germane aspect of western receptions and interpretations of indigenous ritual art around 1900: the role of Christian missionaries, who furnished countless indigenous art objects, and that of missionary propaganda. The latter used to stress the heroic agency of...
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| Language: | English |
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Department of Art History, University of Birmingham
2015-06-01
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| Series: | Journal of Art Historiography |
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| Online Access: | https://arthistoriography.files.wordpress.com/2015/06/corbey-weener.pdf |