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A Politics of Presence

Studies in Anthropology and History

Studies in Anthropology and History is a series which develops new theoretical perspectives, and combines comparative and ethnographic studies with historical research.
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Peter Pels

A Politics of Presence

Contacts between Missionaries and Waluguru in Late Colonial Tanganyika

First published in 1999 by Harwood Academic Publisher

This edition published 2013 by Routledge

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Pels, Peter

A politics of presence : contacts between missionaries and Waluguru in late colonial Tanganyika. (Studies in anthropology and history ; v. 22)

1. Catholic Church Tanganyika Influence 2. Missions Tanganyika History 20th century 3. Luguru (African people) Missions History 20th century

I. Title

266.009678

ISBN 90-5702-304-0

ISSN 1055-2464

To my parents, real and adopted

Tjits Gerritsma and Emile Pels in Bussum, The Netherlands

and

Mama Mkoba and the late Mzee Petri Mloka in Kiswira, Tanzania

Reckoned from the start of my research at my admission to the Postdoctoral Institute for Sociology (now the Amsterdam School for Social Research), when I had never met a Holy Ghost Father nor yet set foot in Africa, this book has taken ten years to produce. It is a much improved version of my dissertation, defended in January 1993, and both during my dissertation research and after it I have accumulated a large amount of debts.

The research was funded by the Amsterdam School for Social Research (ASSR) and the Netherlands Foundation for the Advancement of Tropical Research (WOTRO). I cannot list all the members of the Dutch province of the Congregation of the Holy Ghost who helped me with the Dutch part of my research, and will restrict myself to saying that the support of Father Joop Hogema and the collegiality of Albert de Jong exemplified their generosity. Leny Lagerwerff of the International Institute for Missiology and Oecumene in Leyden, and Jan Roes and Jan van Wei of the Katholiek Documentatie Centrum of the University of Nijmegen were also of great help. Life and work in Dar es Salaam would have been difficult without the hospitality of John Mlundwa, and the help I received from the late Joyce Ligunda, Mrs Lyaruu, and the staff of the Tanzania National Archives in setting up my research.

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