"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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