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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Durham, North Carolina :
Carolina Academic Press,
[2022]
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| Series: | [Ritual studies monograph series]
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Table of Contents:
- Series editors' preface: the endeavor of cross-cultural translation and indigenous responses to Christianity / Andrew J. Strathern & Pamela J. Stewart (Strathern)
- Prologue. Survival as an expression of Samo life. The way it was
- An ethnohistory. Socio-religious expression. The way it came to be
- Kogooa Folobi, 'Singing Ancestor Songs': The 1960s and 70s
- Baibo Booka Folobi, 'Singing Bible Songs': The 1980s
- Giya Folobi, 'Singing Church Songs': The 1990s
- Ayo Dome Hosigandi Folobi, 'Singing Praise to God': The 2000s
- Epilogue. "How will people know we are Samo?" The way it will be.