Singing Samo Songs: From Shaman to Pastor: An Ethnohistorical Approach to Socio-Religious Expressions Among the Samo of Papua New Guinea

by R Daniel Shaw

Why did the Samo respond so positively to Bible translation but largely reject the mission approach to Christianity? A strong self-identity reflected in song types as well as ritual and ceremony the Samo use to order their lives provides answers of interest to anthropologists and missiologists alike. Two organizing principles structure this book. First ethnohistory provides a means to determine the eras of socio-cultural change that characterized...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1531023797
• ISBN13: 9781531023799
• Release Date: June 2022
• Publisher: Carolina Academic Press LLC
• Length: 276 Pages