This book is the first to examine the activities, experience, cultural conflicts, and leadership of the black missionary movement before 1900.  Based on primary sources--documents of mission agencies that sponsored the missionaries and writings of the black American missionaries who were sent to western, central, and southern Africa--it is an important study for understanding black history, American cultural and social history, church history, and African history.

Black Americans and the Evangelization of Africa, 1877-1900

WILLIAMS, WALTER L.

Religion & Spirituality

Univ of Wisconsin Pr

Winner of the: Gay Book of the Year Award, American Library Association; Ruth Benedict Award, Society of Lesbian and Gay Anthropologists; Award for Outstanding Scholarship, World Congress for Sexology Author’s note: Shortly after the second revised edition this book was published in 1992, the term "Two-Spirit Person" became more popular among native people than the older anthropological term "berdache." When I learned of this new term, I began strongly supporting the use of this newer term. I believe that people should be able to call themselves whatever they wish, and scholars should respect and acknowledge their change of terminology. I went on record early on in convincing other anthropologists to shift away from use of the word berdache and in favor of using Two-Spirit. Nevertheless, because this book continues to be sold with the use of berdache, many people have assumed that I am resisting the newer term. Nothing could be further from the truth. Unless continued sales of this book will justify the publication of a third revised edition in the future, it is not possible to rewrite what is already printed, Therefore, I urge readers of this book, as well as activists who are working to gain more respect for gender variance, mentally to substitute the term "Two-Spirit" in the place of "berdache" when reading this text. -- Walter L. Williams, Los Angeles, 2006

The Spirit and the Flesh: Sexual Diversity in American Indian Culture

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Publisher

This landmark study of the American Indian berdache documents how tribal cultures venerated these androgynous people. This valuable sourcebook brings together a wealth of information on the status of gender-variant men in a wide variety of Native American societies.

Spirit and the Flesh: Sexual Diversity in American Indian Culture

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Beacon

Javanese Lives: Women and Men in Modern Indonesian Society

Anthropology

Rutgers University Press

Java is the most populous island of Indonesia, the fifth largest nation in the world. Yet despite its importance, outsiders know little about the country or its people. With the help of Indonesian students and scholars, Walter L. Williams has collected and translated the life histories of twenty-seven Javanese women and men. The people interviewed tell how they have coped with rapid social and economic change, and the transformation of their traditions. Williams has carefully selected the individuals he includes to represent a wide diversity of Java's people. We hear from fascinating men and women of various religions, from the rich and the poor, and from different ethnic backgrounds. Diversity is a constant theme, as evidenced by a poor pedicab driver who can barely scrape along, by a rich businesswoman who explains how she balances her professional and domestic roles, by an educated and respected homosexual school principal, and by an illiterate mother of fourteen children. All of them present in their lives a unique Javanese approach to living. 
These oral histories were derived from elderly people, who have a larger perspective on the changes they have seen in their lifetimes. The focus of the first section of the book is the way people have adapted in their daily lives to massive social and economic changes. In the middle section, we hear from the Javanese who represent traditional values in the midst of change. Finally, we hear from educators and parents who tell us of their concerns for Indonesian youth and the future of Indonesia.

History

Asia

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