The Ways of the People

Table of Contents

Series Foreword

Foreword

Acknowledgments

A History of Missionary Anthropology

Introduction

Part I: Pre-history

1. The Polynesian Migrations

2. The Origin of Fire Worship

3. Historical Identifiers in Fijian Oral Tradition (Dirges)

4. Yoruba Origins in Egypt

Part II: Human Relations in Life and Death

5. A New Britain Life History

6. What is Man?

7. Pre-Christian Baptism and Consecration Among the Maoris

8. Mother

9. Group Marriage and Relationship

10. Bauro Kin Relationships: Responsibility, Adoption, and Avoidance [San Cristoval, Solomon Islands]

11. Cremation Among the Santals

12. Either Side of the Grave

Part III: Social Organization and Institutions

13. The Suqe: A Melanesian Cult

14. King and People in Tahiti

15. Adopted Member, Headman, Trading Partner

16. The Dukduk and the Tubuan of New Britain

17. Covenants in Melanesia and Polynesia

18. The Leaders of Karimpur

19. The Place of the Bantu Chief in Rainmaking and First Fruit Rites

Part IV: Creative Arts

20. Chinese Theaters, Plays, and Players

21. The Story of Tu and Rei: A Manihikian Myth

22. Fijian Poetry

23. Toward an Ethnography of Hausa Riddling

Part V: Economics

24 .The Procedure and Economics of Craft Management in Old Samoa

25. Debt

26. New Britain Currency

Part VI: Communication

27. Mother Tongue

28. Evans’ Cree Alphabet

29. Communicating with Drum Beats

30. The Dialects of Polynesia

31. Culture, Meaning, and Translation

32. Languages, Signs, and Smoke Signals [Arnhem Land Nomads]

33. Dream Embassy

34. Conversion: Individual or Collective

Part VII: Phenomenology of Religion

35. A Religion of Mana, Spirits, and Ghosts

36. The Batak View of the Soul

37. Samoan Gods and Their Incarnations

38. The Snake Which is a Man

39. A Typology of the Spirits of Korean Shamanism

40. Haida Eschatology

41. The Importance of Ghosts

Part VIII: Ritual Performance

42. Nanga Initiation

43. Shrines, Symbols, and Ministrants in South India

44. Belief in and the Use of the Supernatural [Australia]

45. Healing the Sick in the Tor

46. Juju

47. Dialogue with a Rain-doctor

48. Mana

Part IX: Culture Contact and Cultural Dynamics

49. The Land Question

50. The Vocabulary of Land Tenure in Fiji

51. Class, Caste, and Power

52. Group Conversion and Its Symbolism [The Keysser Method of Evangelism]

53. A Meo Incipient Church

54. The Problem of Making Christianity Indigenous

55. Bantu Messiah and the White Christ

56. Pagan and Christian Features in West African Independent Churches

57. Stripping a Man of His Gods

Part X: Ethnopsychology

58. Akan Psychology

59. The Ethnopsychology of the Aymara Indians

60. Sachilamba: A Product of His Times

61. The Role of an Outgroup Person in a Culture Complex

62. African Locative Memory

63. Empathy

Part XI: Ethnotheology

64. Dynamic Equivalence Churches

65. Levels in African Theology

66. The Cultural Dynamics of Postbaptismal Christian Formation

Part XII: Social Values

67. The Communal Bond in Bantu Africa

68. Behavior of and in the Presence of Maori Chiefs in the Culture Contact Period

69. Makkarrata: Peacemaking

70. Face

71. Moral Values in Folklore

72. On Being Clever

73. Spirit Dancing

74. Customary Law in the Contact Period, Malaita

75. American Indian Oratory

76. Writing Words and Registering Time: A Matter of Worldview

Part XIII: Applied Anthropology

77. The Golden Stool

78. Anthropological Research in Oceania: Methods and Opportunities

79. Applying Anthropology to Daily Life

80. Shifting Attitudes to Sex and Marriage in Fiji

81. The Missionary and Anthropology

Part XIV: Research Methodology

82. Data Collecting from Informants

83. Dynamic Relationships in Religion

84. Kinship Questionnaire and Letter

85. Ethnohistorical Research in West Cameroon

86. Four Santal Autobiographies

Part XV: Theory of Anthropology

87. Levels for Describing Culture

88. To What Extent are Notions of Sin and Salvation Universal?

89. The Need for, and Needs of, Anthropology in Relating to Missiology

Appendices

Appendix A The Training of Indigenous Leaders in Fiji

Appendix B Some Items from Edinburgh 1910:

“Special Missionary Preparation” Edinburgh 1910

Appendix C The Milligan Consultation Resolution, 1974

Appendix D Updated Bibliography of Missionary Anthropology

References Cited