The Spatiotemporal Transformations of Lutheran Airplanes

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ID7100548
AutoresCourtney Handman (0000-0003-0118-1045, The University of Texas at Austin, autor correspondente)
Ano2019
Volume7
Fascículo1
Páginas68-95
Data de publicação2019-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoSigns and Society (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 2326-4489 • E-ISSN: 2326-4497
EditoraCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1086/701049
OpenAlexW2913535424
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas7
Referências citadas20

Lutheran missionaries in pre–World War II colonial New Guinea transformed their mission when they became the first group to use “aviation for souls.” Transformations in modes of circulation (from muddy, dark paths through dense rainforests into fast, sun-filled flights above a mountainous landscape) depended upon the discursive organization of a set of different space-times—to use Nancy Munn’s term—so as to properly sacralize a mode of transportation that had until then been used almost exclusively in service of colonial resource extraction at the New Guinea gold fields. The mission prized movement and circulation as a Christian evangelistic practice in and of itself, in which the “message” and the process of its spread could be conflated. Yet this emphasis on circulation has been obscured by the almost exclusive attention within the anthropology of religion to evangelism as a form of agonistic comparison between Christianity and local culture and within linguistic anthropology to circulation as about type-token relations among texts

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