'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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Published in:	History & Anthropology Vol. 35; no. 1; pp. 134 - 152
Main Author:	Berta, Ola Gunhildrud
Format:	Article
Published:	Taylor & Francis Ltd Feb2024
Subjects:	Missionaries Historical analysis Social change Narratives Marshall Islands
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost