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Gathering for God : George Brown in Oceania / Helen Bethea Gardner.

By: Publication details: Dunedin, N.Z. : Otago University Press 2006.Description: 204 p., 30 p. of plates : ill., maps ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 1877372188
Subject(s): Review: "George Brown was a major collector of Pacific artefacts (his collection is in Japan's National Museum of Ethnology) and photographer of Pacific peoples (his collection is in the Australian Museum). But first of all, he was a gatherer of souls." "Originally from the north of England, Brown worked as a Wesleyan Methodist missionary in Samoa (1860) and the Bismarck Archipelago of Papua New Guinea (1875). In the 1880s, he became general secretary of the Australasian Methodist Overseas Mission, a post he held for more than twenty years and which involved further travel in the Pacific. His colourful life provides a case study of the role of Christian missionaries at this time. He was politically engaged, encouraging colonial rule in the Pacific by America, Britain, Germany and, eventually, Australia and New Zealand. He was strategic and active beyond the traditional boundaries of missionary work - most controversially in his punitive attack on New Britain villages. He was also an avid practitioner of the new discipline of anthropology and corresponded with the founders of the science of man. Over the course of his career he gathered cultures, converts and colonies." "Gathering for God is the first book to critically examine Brown's career and to publish a selection of his outstanding photographs."--BOOK JACKET.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
Main Collection Diocese of Dunedin BX8325.9.B87 GAR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available A3745066X
Main Collection John Kinder Theological Library BX8325.9.B87 GAR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available J00832271
New Zealand/Pacific John Kinder Theological Library BX8325.9.B87 GAR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Not for loan J00832045

Includes bibliographical references (p. [157]-168) and index.

"George Brown was a major collector of Pacific artefacts (his collection is in Japan's National Museum of Ethnology) and photographer of Pacific peoples (his collection is in the Australian Museum). But first of all, he was a gatherer of souls." "Originally from the north of England, Brown worked as a Wesleyan Methodist missionary in Samoa (1860) and the Bismarck Archipelago of Papua New Guinea (1875). In the 1880s, he became general secretary of the Australasian Methodist Overseas Mission, a post he held for more than twenty years and which involved further travel in the Pacific. His colourful life provides a case study of the role of Christian missionaries at this time. He was politically engaged, encouraging colonial rule in the Pacific by America, Britain, Germany and, eventually, Australia and New Zealand. He was strategic and active beyond the traditional boundaries of missionary work - most controversially in his punitive attack on New Britain villages. He was also an avid practitioner of the new discipline of anthropology and corresponded with the founders of the science of man. Over the course of his career he gathered cultures, converts and colonies." "Gathering for God is the first book to critically examine Brown's career and to publish a selection of his outstanding photographs."--BOOK JACKET.

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