David Hardiman

Missionaries and their medicine

A Christian modernity for tribal India

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Produktbeschreibung

Missionaries and their Medicine is a lucid and enthralling study of the encounter between Christian missionaries and an Indian tribal community, the Bhils, in the period 1880 to 1964.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. August 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 430g
• ISBN-13: 9780719095399
• ISBN-10: 0719095395
• Artikelnr.: 40620047

Autorenporträt

David Hardiman is Professor of History at the University of Warwick

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 2. The Bhils 3. The mission to the Bhils 4. The great
famine 5. The conversion of the Bhagats 6. Christian healing 7. Fighting
demons 8. Woman's work for woman 9. A little empire 10. Medicine on a
shoestring and a prayer 11. A mission for a postcolonial era 12. Medical
modernity 13. Closure 14. Conclusion: mission medicine and Bhil modernity
Bibliography Index