'Because of the missionaries': The ambiguous presence of past missionaries in the Marshall Islands.

This article analyzes the contemporary presence of pioneering missionaries to the Marshall Islands by looking at how conventional conversion narratives construe them as agents of radical transformation. Ridden with ambiguity, conversion is a recursive factor in social and political life, a fact that...

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Publicado en:History & Anthropology Vol. 35; no. 1; pp. 134 - 152
Autor principal: Berta, Ola Gunhildrud
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Publicado: Taylor & Francis Ltd Feb2024
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