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Subject(s)

• Missions—Theory [Browse]
• Missions—Social aspects [Browse]
• Missions—Great Britain—Miscellanea [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Trivia and miscellanea [Browse]

Series

• Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series [More in this series]
• Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-230) and index.

Contents

• Representing homes: gender and sexuality in missionary writing
• Re-making homes: ambiguous encounters and domestic transgressions
• Pathologising heathenism: discourses of sickness and the rise of medical missions
• Illness on the mission station: sickness and the presentation of the "self"
• Violence and the construction of the other
• Colonial violence: whiteness, violence and civilisation
• Conclusion: thinking with missionaries; thinking about difference.

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ISBN

• 9780230296800 (hbk.)
• 0230296807 (hbk.)
• 9780333919095 (pbk.)
• 0333919092 (pbk.)

LCCN

2012016704

OCLC

801924105

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