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Publication details [#13934]

Senft, Gunter. 1997. Magic, Missionaries, and Religion - Some Observations from the Trobriand Islands. In Otto, Ton and Ad Borsboom, eds. Cultural Dynamics of Religious Change in Oceania. KITLV press. pp. 45–58.
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English

Annotation

After a brief overview of the history of mission activities on the Trobriand Islands (Papua New Guinea) this paper describes aspects of language and culture change that can directly be referred back to the influence of missions and missionaries on the islands.