David Wetherell
Biographic Data
| ID | 628195 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Wetherell |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Wetherell |
| SIGNATURE | WETHERELL D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Deakin University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5783-3642 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Creating an Indigenous Christian Leadership in Papua: Three Missions Compared
In eastern Papua, Christian missionaries found a social structure unparalleled in most areas of religious expansion in the world: it apparently lacked chiefs and any identifiable leadership. Nearly all the Massim societies of eastern Papua were matrilineal, and land was passed through females. Here, women enjoyed a higher status than elsewhere in what is now Papua New Guinea. By drawing on the records of missionary agents, both European and Polyn…
A bishop's wife in Torres Strait: Joan Davies 1930–49
n\t\t\t\t\tJoan Davies’s relationship with her husband challenges the view that women performed in the merely private and subservient realm. Joan and her husband did not for long remain embedded in a domestic relationship of dominance and subordination. This Australian clergy marriage of the 1930s shows the development of a smooth harmony of interests, with the wife gaining from an experienced husband a new role and becoming his counsellor and or…
The Use and Misuse of Religious Language: Zionism and the Palestinians
Every discipline which deals with the land question in Canaan-Palestine-Israel is afflicted by the problem of specialisation. The political scientist and historian usually discuss the issue of land in Israel purely in terms of interethnic and international relations, biblical scholars concentrate on the historical and archaeological question with virtually no reference to ethics, and scholars of human rights usually evade the question of God. Wha…
The Bishop of Carpentaria and the Torres Strait pearlers' strike of 1936
The exploitation of Islander pearl divers in Torres Strait and the Queensland Government's control of divers' wages was the major cause of a strike by 400 divers in 1936. The strike was also fuelled by overall discontent with the Queensland Government's rule and a desire to be free of the Queensland Protectors. An address in 1935 by Stephen Davies, Bishop of Carpentaria, urging the Commonwealth of Australia to strip Queensland and other states of…
Teachers All: Samoan, Fijian, and Queensland Melanesian Missionaries in Papua, 1884–1914
Pacific Islands mission teachers were powerful agents of culture change in Oceania, and the Christianity they taught is part of the ideological and constitutional under‐pinnings of several independent Pacific Island states. Their fullest impact was felt in the period between the 1880s and 1914, when vast distances were being crossed and diverse populations reached by evangelists from half a dozen Pacific nationalities. Below the common religious …
Whatever Happened in Torres Strait: Interpreting the Anglican split of 1998
Recent movements within world Anglicanism towards a more democratic representation of the church are in contrast to Torres Strait Islanders' assertion of their own male-led conservative and hierarchical body. These characteristics have marked Torres Strait Island Anglicanism for many years. On the surface, the various strands leading to a conflict over a choice of leader in 1997 focused upon discordant relationships and faulty decision-making pro…
First contact mission narratives from eastern Papua New Guinea
(1998). First contact mission narratives from eastern Papua New Guinea. The Journal of Pacific History: Vol. 33, No. 1, pp. 111-116
Moral Re‐Armament in Papua, 1931–42
The fortunes of Charles W. Abel of Kwato: A note
The fortunes of Charles W. Abel of Kwato 1891–1930∗
(1982). The fortunes of Charles W. Abel of Kwato 1891–1930. The Journal of Pacific History: Vol. 17, No. 4, pp. 195-217
Pioneers and patriarchs: Samoans in a nonconformist mission district in Papua, 1890–1917
southern part of mainland New Guinea as employees of the London Mis sionary Society. Apart from two parties of Loyalty Islanders, the teachers were from the Polynesian islands of Niue, Rarotonga and Samoa, with a small number of Tahitians.1 From the 1820s, when Tahitian teachers had begun to spread the faith of Evangelical Christianity to the Cook Islands and Tonga, the use of Islands agents had become a standard part of Protestant missionary pra…
From Fiji to Papua: The work of the ‘Vakavuvuli’∗
Monument to a missionary: C. W. Abel and the Keveri of Papua
professed a reverence for the secure and respectable, and was easily convinced of the superiority of his own mode of thought. But Abel was also more intelligent than most of his colleagues and was a more violent partisan. In him ordinary qualities were magnified to an extraordinary degree. A self-educated emigrant who had worked at the age of 18 as a labourer among Maoris in New Zealand, Abel returned to England in 1884 to acquire an elementary k…
From the archives: A Note on the Kwato Archives
Monument to a missionary: C. W. Abel and the Keveri of Papua
professed a reverence for the secure and respectable, and was easily convinced of the superiority of his own mode of thought. But Abel was also more intelligent than most of his colleagues and was a more violent partisan. In him ordinary qualities were magnified to an extraordinary degree. A self-educated emigrant who had worked at the age of 18 as a labourer among Maoris in New Zealand, Abel returned to England in 1884 to acquire an elementary k…
From Fiji to Papua: The work of the ‘Vakavuvuli’∗
Creating an Indigenous Christian Leadership in Papua: Three Missions Compared
In eastern Papua, Christian missionaries found a social structure unparalleled in most areas of religious expansion in the world: it apparently lacked chiefs and any identifiable leadership. Nearly all the Massim societies of eastern Papua were matrilineal, and land was passed through females. Here, women enjoyed a higher status than elsewhere in what is now Papua New Guinea. By drawing on the records of missionary agents, both European and Polyn…
The fortunes of Charles W. Abel of Kwato 1891–1930∗
(1982). The fortunes of Charles W. Abel of Kwato 1891–1930. The Journal of Pacific History: Vol. 17, No. 4, pp. 195-217
Pioneers and patriarchs: Samoans in a nonconformist mission district in Papua, 1890–1917
southern part of mainland New Guinea as employees of the London Mis sionary Society. Apart from two parties of Loyalty Islanders, the teachers were from the Polynesian islands of Niue, Rarotonga and Samoa, with a small number of Tahitians.1 From the 1820s, when Tahitian teachers had begun to spread the faith of Evangelical Christianity to the Cook Islands and Tonga, the use of Islands agents had become a standard part of Protestant missionary pra…
Monument to a missionary: C. W. Abel and the Keveri of Papua
professed a reverence for the secure and respectable, and was easily convinced of the superiority of his own mode of thought. But Abel was also more intelligent than most of his colleagues and was a more violent partisan. In him ordinary qualities were magnified to an extraordinary degree. A self-educated emigrant who had worked at the age of 18 as a labourer among Maoris in New Zealand, Abel returned to England in 1884 to acquire an elementary k…
From the archives: A Note on the Kwato Archives
From Fiji to Papua: The work of the ‘Vakavuvuli’∗
Pioneers and patriarchs: Samoans in a nonconformist mission district in Papua, 1890–1917
southern part of mainland New Guinea as employees of the London Mis sionary Society. Apart from two parties of Loyalty Islanders, the teachers were from the Polynesian islands of Niue, Rarotonga and Samoa, with a small number of Tahitians.1 From the 1820s, when Tahitian teachers had begun to spread the faith of Evangelical Christianity to the Cook Islands and Tonga, the use of Islands agents had become a standard part of Protestant missionary pra…
The fortunes of Charles W. Abel of Kwato 1891–1930∗
(1982). The fortunes of Charles W. Abel of Kwato 1891–1930. The Journal of Pacific History: Vol. 17, No. 4, pp. 195-217
The fortunes of Charles W. Abel of Kwato: A note
Moral Re‐Armament in Papua, 1931–42
First contact mission narratives from eastern Papua New Guinea
(1998). First contact mission narratives from eastern Papua New Guinea. The Journal of Pacific History: Vol. 33, No. 1, pp. 111-116
Whatever Happened in Torres Strait: Interpreting the Anglican split of 1998
Recent movements within world Anglicanism towards a more democratic representation of the church are in contrast to Torres Strait Islanders' assertion of their own male-led conservative and hierarchical body. These characteristics have marked Torres Strait Island Anglicanism for many years. On the surface, the various strands leading to a conflict over a choice of leader in 1997 focused upon discordant relationships and faulty decision-making pro…
Teachers All: Samoan, Fijian, and Queensland Melanesian Missionaries in Papua, 1884–1914
Pacific Islands mission teachers were powerful agents of culture change in Oceania, and the Christianity they taught is part of the ideological and constitutional under‐pinnings of several independent Pacific Island states. Their fullest impact was felt in the period between the 1880s and 1914, when vast distances were being crossed and diverse populations reached by evangelists from half a dozen Pacific nationalities. Below the common religious …
The Bishop of Carpentaria and the Torres Strait pearlers' strike of 1936
The exploitation of Islander pearl divers in Torres Strait and the Queensland Government's control of divers' wages was the major cause of a strike by 400 divers in 1936. The strike was also fuelled by overall discontent with the Queensland Government's rule and a desire to be free of the Queensland Protectors. An address in 1935 by Stephen Davies, Bishop of Carpentaria, urging the Commonwealth of Australia to strip Queensland and other states of…
The Use and Misuse of Religious Language: Zionism and the Palestinians
Every discipline which deals with the land question in Canaan-Palestine-Israel is afflicted by the problem of specialisation. The political scientist and historian usually discuss the issue of land in Israel purely in terms of interethnic and international relations, biblical scholars concentrate on the historical and archaeological question with virtually no reference to ethics, and scholars of human rights usually evade the question of God. Wha…
A bishop's wife in Torres Strait: Joan Davies 1930–49
n\t\t\t\t\tJoan Davies’s relationship with her husband challenges the view that women performed in the merely private and subservient realm. Joan and her husband did not for long remain embedded in a domestic relationship of dominance and subordination. This Australian clergy marriage of the 1930s shows the development of a smooth harmony of interests, with the wife gaining from an experienced husband a new role and becoming his counsellor and or…
Creating an Indigenous Christian Leadership in Papua: Three Missions Compared
In eastern Papua, Christian missionaries found a social structure unparalleled in most areas of religious expansion in the world: it apparently lacked chiefs and any identifiable leadership. Nearly all the Massim societies of eastern Papua were matrilineal, and land was passed through females. Here, women enjoyed a higher status than elsewhere in what is now Papua New Guinea. By drawing on the records of missionary agents, both European and Polyn…
History (14 works) · Island Studies and Pacific Affairs (8 works) · Ethnology (7 works) · Genealogy (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Ancient history (5 works) · New guinea (5 works) · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies (5 works) · Archaeology (4 works) · Law (4 works)