Person and Myth: Maurice Leenhardt in the Melanesian World
Author:
James Clifford
ISBN:
0822312646
Format:
Handover
Publish Date:
June, 2005
Book Review
Person and Myth: Maurice Leenhardt in the Melanesian World
FROM THE PUBLISHER
Originally published in 1982, James Clifford's analytical biography of Maurice Leenhardt (1878-1954)--missionary, anthropologist, founder of French Oceanic studies, historian of religion, and colonial reformer--received wide critical acclaim for its insight into the colonial history of anthropology.