The Missionary’s Dilemma
A Short History of Christian Marriage and its Impact upon Gender Equality in Maisin Society
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20077572 |
|---|---|
| Authors | J Barker (0000-0002-2896-7358, Australian National University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Pages | 157-181 |
| Publication date | 2021-01-18 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Unequal Lives (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | ANU Press (PUBLISHER • AU) |
| DOI | 10.22459/ue.2020.06 |
| OpenAlex | W3122789626 |
| ISBN | 9781760464103 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 12 |
Better homes and gardens' with a description of contemporary Tubetube houses. 'These houses,' she observed, 'being made entirely from "bush materials", conform to Western notions of the primitive or traditional architecture appropriate to a small tropical island ' (1989, p. 156). Tubetube people, however, attributed the houses to Islander teachers who served as the workforce of the Methodist mission that arrived on the island in 1892. Drawing upon oral histories and archival sources, Macintyre related how the teachers focused their evangelical campaign against the houses of chiefs, due to the presence of ancestral skulls and other items they reasonably presumed to be associated with 'heathen' spiritual beliefs, warfare and sorcery. The destruction of the houses corresponded to the undermining of chiefly authority that, along with severe population loss through disease, ramified over time, ending Tubetube's involvement in regional trade networks and changing local patterns of settlement. Having helped to destroy the old society, the teachers provided new models of houses, gardens and ritual activities, now centred around the church. Macintyre concluded: 'when we are confronted by a church-going
Dilemma · Epistemology · Gender equality · Political science · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Gender Studies · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History · Philosophy · Religious studies
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |