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"Arbeiter im Weinberg", oder, "Der ungebildete Missionar
Walter F. Veit
Berlin : Wichern-Verlag, 2005
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Book description
It became important to investigate the non-theological education
of missionaries. It took some time until missionaries were given at
least a basic education in ethnography and anthropology. One can argue that
there is no anthropology as we know it today without the work of
missionaries, even if this is only grudgingly admitted in the discipline
today. The paradox lies in the fact that a theory and practice of
anthropology was worked out in a dialectic between scientific and missionary
research emerging as a differentiation into social and cultural
anthropology.
About the author
Born in Germany in 1935, Walter Friedrich Veit was educated
at the universities of Tbingen and Cologne, where he studied History,
Philosophy, German Literature and Comparative Literature. He taught
German literature and philosophy, Comparative Literature, and European
Studies and at present supervises a number of PhD-students. His research
and publications comprise the areas of literary theory, comparative and
intercultural studies, history of ideas, Australian-German intellectual
relations, and travel literature.
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