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Author Gullestad Marianne

Title Picturing Pity : Pitfalls and Pleasures in Cross-Cultural Communication. Image and Word in a North Cameroon Mission
Published New York, NY : Berghahn Books, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (302 pages)
Contents Picturing pity; contents; introduction; 1. propaganda for christ; 2. establishing a goodness regime; 3. imagining a call from africa; 4. reflections on taking photographs; 5. god's sowers and reapers; 6. women and children:both marginal and central; 7. muslim men: dangerous rivals and exotic villains; 8. victims and villains in a feature film from 1960; 9. from religious propaganda to cultural heritage; 10. goodness and its side-effects; bibliography; index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-293) and index
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Subject Missions -- Norway -- Pictorial works
Missions -- Cameroon -- Pictorial works
Intercultural communication -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- Pictorial works
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
HISTORY -- Africa -- West.
Intercultural communication -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
Missions
Cameroon
Norway
Genre/Form Pictorial works
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2007040475
ISBN 9781782388807
178238880X
9781845453435
1845453433