Mission

This page lists all posts in the category 'Mission' on The Ideophone.

Finalist in the AAA Photo contest [2009025]

Scandalised missionaries and quite a new class of priests: some unforeseen effects of early missionary efforts in the Gold Coast [2008126]

Kawu in January 1887 [2008072]

Adjectives and the gospel in Ewe [20080527]

The mysteries of Christian doctrine, or, How an African language was mistaken for an Amazonian one [20080428]

Pfisterer on Akpafu, 1904 (part II) [20080130]

Pfisterer on Akpafu, 1904 (part I) [20080128]

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Half-baked ideas, raw data, and sometimes a glimmer of insight. The Ideophone is a blog by Mark Dingemanse, PhD fellow in the Language and Cognition group at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics. Reach me at firstname.lastname@mpi.nl.

Kawu
Akpafu-Todzi, June 2007 Damit war auch die Frage nach einem passenden Ort für die Haupt-Station gelöst. Das schön, frei und gesund und doch nicht allzu hoch gelegene Akpafu, die zweitgrößte Stadt in Boem, war der geeignete Ort.

Andreas Pfisterer, 1904, on the place where I do fieldwork.