| Food for the Flames: Idols and Missionaries in Central Polynesia | 
| Author: David Shaw King
Creator: David Attenborough
Publisher: Paul Holberton Publishing
Category: Book
List Price: $80.00
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Sales Rank: 1,094,851
Languages: English (Unknown), English (Original Language), English (Published)
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.3
Dimensions (in): 11.2 x 8.8 x 1.1
ISBN: 1907372164
EAN: 9781907372162
ASIN: 1907372164
Publication Date: July 18, 2011
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Twenty-five years after Captain Cook, the London Missionary Society sent its first representatives to the South Seas. Their goal was to eradicate heathenism and idolatry, but unwittingly, they became agents for the preservation of Polynesian culture through their diligent recording of language and religious practices. They even preserved a number of religious artifacts, which they sent back to England for exhibition in the Mission Museum in London.Food for the Flames focuses on these artifacts, the idols that avoided the flames. With the scientist's belief in letting the evidence speak for itself, the author, a biochemist, has mined a wide range of primary sources to bring together a wealth of new information on a generally unpopular subject, the missionary endeavour. Missionary subjects, Polynesian 'temples', and numerous idols are illustrated in color. The majority of this material is published here for the first time.
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