Conversion Objects:Kamoro Crucifixes from Western New Guinea

Jacobs, Karen (2025) Conversion Objects:Kamoro Crucifixes from Western New Guinea. In: Missionssammlungen ausgepackt. Brill-Böhlau, Cologne, pp. 107-114. ISBN 978-3-412-53324-3

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Abstract

The process of missionisation in the Pacific region was a practice that involved material changes and transformations. This was no different in the western New Guinea, current West Papua, which during Dutch colonial times was divided into a Protestant north and a Catholic south. The focus in this article is on the Kamoro region, where Roman Catholic missionaries discouraged as well as encouraged new material productions in the conversion process. By considering a small corpus of crucifixes as ‘conversion objects’, this article aims to demonstrate the interactions that are behind these creations.

Item Type:	Book Section
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Centres > Sainsbury Research Unit for the Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas
Depositing User:	LivePure Connector
Date Deposited:	30 Sep 2025 09:30
Last Modified:	30 Sep 2025 09:30
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/100562
DOI:	isbn:978-3-412-53324-3

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