Ghost Ship by Diane Carey

Ghost Ship by Diane Carey

As McKittrick explains, Christianity meant many different things to floodplain communities, and struggles to incorporate Christianity paralleled and intersected with other ongoing struggles. The sets of meanings that came to dominate were those created by young people drawn from a range of social backgrounds who in the behaviors and beliefs associated with Christian missionaries, found a refuge from insecurity and ways to transcend a particularly African context of generational relations and ideologies.

Based on over five years of research in Nambia, Finland, and Germany, McKittrick's book is a tour de force demonstration of African social history at its best. Her fluency with a number of sources in a number of languages: Afrikaans, English, Finnish, French, German, Oshiwambo, and Portuguese, her interviews with numerous Ovambo, and her rigorous sleuthing through a massive body of ethnographic materials, travelers' accounts, and missionary accounts is breathtakingly impressive. She convincingly demonstrates the many ways a microhistory that stresses the local can nonetheless significantly illuminate our understanding of historical process throughout Africa.

Diane Carey is the New York Times bestselling author of over 50 books, both fiction and non fiction, including the bestselling Star Trek series

John Shirley is a critically acclaimed cyberpunk, sci-fi and horror writer, titles include City Come-Walkin' and Dracula In Love. He wrote the first screenplay for The Crow. He has also written many tie-ins including Constantine and Doom. His short story collection Black Butterflies won a Bram Stoker, the International Horror Guild Award and was one of the Publishers Weekly best books of 1998.

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ISBN 13	9780671746087
ISBN 10	0671746081
Title	Ghost Ship
Author	Diane Carey
Series	Star Trek: The Next Generation
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Macmillan Publishers New Zealand Ltd
Year published	1991-06-01
Number of pages	258
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