Faith in objects: American missionary expositions in the early twentieth century

Hasinoff brings the untold history of the World in Boston of 1911, 'America'sFirst Great Missionary Exposition,' to light, focusing on how the material culture of missions shaped domestic interactions with evangelism, Christianity, and the consumption of ethnological knowledge. ERIN L. HASINOFF Fellow in Museum Anthropology at the American Museum of Natural History and Bard Graduate Center, USA. INDICE: PART I: PRELIMINARIES - Antecedents - PART II: THE WORLD IN BOSTONOF 1911 - Setting the Stage - First Impressions - PART III: PEDAGOGICAL ARCHITECTURE - Object Lessons - Spiritless Pleasures - PART IV: THE MISSIONARY EXHIBIT OF 1900 - An Established Tradition - Missionary Engagements - Objects of Missionary Education - PART V: STEWARDSHIP - Scripted Parts - Life-Long Lessons- Epilogue -

• ISBN: 978-0-230-11672-6
• Editorial: Palgrave MacM
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 286
• Fecha Publicación: 23/12/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés