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Singing samo songs : from Shaman to pastor : an ethnohistorical approach to socio-religious expressions among the Samo of Papua New Guinea /

"Why did the Samo respond so positively to Bible translation but largely reject the mission approach to Christianity? A strong self-identity reflected in song types as well as ritual and ceremony the Samo use to order their lives provides answers of interest to anthropologists and missiologists...

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Main Author:	Shaw, R. Daniel (Robert Daniel), 1943- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Durham, North Carolina : Carolina Academic Press, [2022]
Series:	[Ritual studies monograph series]
Subjects:	Samo (Papua New Guinean people) > Rites and ceremonies. Papua New Guinea > Religion. Folk songs, Samoan > Papua New Guinea. Christianity > Papua New Guinea. Samo (Papua New Guinean people) > Social conditions.

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