Missionary Practices on the Gold Coast, 1832–1895: Discourse, Gaze and Gender in the Basel Mission in Pre-Colonial West Africa
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Chapter Three: Andreas Riis

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Andreas Riis: Prospects and Social Change

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Innocent Arrival on the Gold Coast

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Stumbling to Akropong

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Building the Mission House

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Conflict with the Danes

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Marriage to Anna Wolters

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Riis: Naturalist and Ethnologist

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New Beginnings with the West Indians

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Misconceptions and Conflicts

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Riis and the Question of Slavery

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Chapter Four: Rosine Widmann: Gender and Discourse on the Mission Field

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Life in Korntal

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Widmann_s Mission and Quest

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Journey to London

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