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Defending friends : Robert Codrington, George Sarawia and Edward Wogale

Gardner, Helen 2012, Defending friends : Robert Codrington, George Sarawia and Edward Wogale, in Atlantic world in the Antipodes : effects and transformations since the eighteenth century, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne, England, pp.146-165.

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Title Defending friends : Robert Codrington, George Sarawia and Edward Wogale
Author(s) Gardner, Helen
Title of book Atlantic world in the Antipodes : effects and transformations since the eighteenth century
Publication date 2012
Chapter number 7
Total chapters 12
Start page 146
End page 165
Total pages 20
Publisher Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Place of Publication Newcastle upon Tyne, England
Keyword(s) history
Melanesia
christian mission
anthropology
Summary Friendship between nineteenth century missionary anthropologists and their converted cultural mentors was central to the gathering of cultural and linguistic information. This chapter traces the friendship between Anglican missionary/anthropologist, Robert Codrington, and brothers George Sarawia - first Melanesian priest - and Edward Wogale - deacon. Codrington's theological perspective on Melanesians and his close friendships with the pupils of the Melanesian Mission School at Norfolk Island allowed him to resist the increasing racialism of Atlantic science in the late nineteenth century and to challenge the evolutionist anthropology of the 1870s and 1880s. The chapter is based, in part, on a cache of letters from Wogale and Sarawia to Codrington written in Mota, the lingua franca of the Anglican Mission.
ISBN 144383744X
978443837446
Language eng
Field of Research 210313 Pacific History (excl New Zealand and Maori)
Socio Economic Objective 950599 Understanding Past Societies not elsewhere classified
HERDC Research category B1 Book chapter
Copyright notice ©2012, Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30048972

Document type: Book Chapter
Collection: Alfred Deakin Research Institute
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