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Pilgrim Path: The First Company of Women Missionaries to Hawaii
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by Mary Zwiep
Sales Rank: 1599868
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$7.94
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Features
Cover Type: Paperback with 400 pages
Published by: Univ of Wisconsin Pr October 1991
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0299129047
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0299129040
Book Dimensions:
9.2 x 6.2 x 1 inches
Weighs: 1.5 pounds
From Publishers Weekly
Zwiep offers a vivid portrait of life in Hawaii in the 1820s and 1830s by depicting the public, domestic and intellectual stories of the women who were part of the first group of missionaries to come to the Islands in 1820, just forty years after their discovery by Captain Cook. The book also provides a classic picture of cultures in collision. The missionaries were exasperated and bewildered by--and condescending to--the islanders, whom they looked upon as indolent, sexually depraved children. For their part, the Hawaiians, a deeply spiritual people whose hulas and feasts could go on for months, never understood the perfunctory attitude of white religious practice. As churches and schools were established by the missionaries, the natives were eventually won over, not because they recognized the superiority of the white religion but because they respected its purveyors. For this, argues the author, the women were especially responsible. In this poignant telling, Zwiep, a visiting English lecturer at the University of Michigan, recovers an important story heretofore largely overlooked. Illustrated.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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