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| A Suitcase of Books |
In an attempt to conceal his identity as a senior VFI scholar, John L*****
passes himself off as a librarian during the day and as a cataloguer of
Australian soap operas during the night. He has so far been successful in his
endeavour for neither his colleagues nor members of his household suspect he is the author of the Bird List Song List and other important VFI research papers.
This suitcase was given to John by a stranger on a train. It contains three books, passages from which have been highlighted.
Ralph Waldo Emerson V
THE POET FRAGMENTS ON THE POET AND THE POETIC GIFT
All day his song is heard;
And when he goes he carries
No more baggage than a bird.
Rev Dr Michael Griffiths. Foreword by Archbishop of Canterbury.
A TASK UNFINISHED: HOW TO RECRUIT, SUPPORT AND PRAY FOR MISSIONARIES AND CHRISTIAN WORKERS IN A CONSTANTLY CHANGING WORLD
Monarch Publications, Oct 1996, Published in UK. Published in Association with Care for Education
160pp, 198 x 129mm, PAPERBACK UK 5.99 1-85424-313-6
This is a handbook on how to finance and organize a mission today. The book considers in detail
the changing nature of world mission, the key role of the local
Church, and the parts played by ministers, congregations and friends.
It looks at the pitfalls of missionary development, and suggests how
missionaries can be supported, or can support themselves. The
advice includes accounts of characters who people mission history,
from Mildred Cable, who travelled by ox carts across the Gobi Desert,
to John Athelstan Cheese, who once tried to travel by ship as a piece
of luggage. Few people can actually go out as missionaries or
evangelists, but all can participate. The book is suitable for
Christian leaders, house or group leaders, members of mission prayer
teams and mission committees. Michael Griffiths is the author of
"Cinderella with Amnesia" and "The Example of Jesus".
M.A. MacKenzie
Series: Studies in Anthropology and History, Vol 2
Androgynous objects: String bags and gender in Central New Guinea
University of Papua New Guinea, Harwood Academic, 1992, Published in UK, 272pp, 246 x 160mm, HARDBACK UK 34.00 3-7186-5155-6. Not For Sale in Japan, Australia
Intended
for anthropologists, this book begins with a general survey of the
"bilum" in Papua New Guinea and discusses recent innovations, as well
as traditional forms and functions. It adopts a developmental view of
the object, revealing the social relations in which the bag is
constructed.
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