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Chapters: Missionary ethnography on the Northwest Coast by John Barker The contributions of mendicant friars to Mesoamerican ethnography by Hugo G. Nutini Updating The Jesuit Relations by Michael F. Steltenkamp Fr. Berard Haile, O.F.M., anthropologist and Franciscan missionary by Charlotte J. Frisbie WIlliam Cameron Townsend and missionary linguistics by William Svelmoe WIlliam and Charlotte Vaill Wiser: Missionaries as scholars and development officers by Susan Snow Wadley The Society of the Divine Word missionaries: Late 19th and 20th century ethnographers along the northeast coast of New Guinea by Nancy Lutkehaus Culture and faith: The contribution of the Melanesian Institute, Papua New Guinea by Philip Gibbs Mission ethnographic and linguistics studies of the Chimbu by Paula Brown Ethnographic records from teh Western Highlands of Papua New Guinea: Missionary-linguists, missionary-ethnographers by Andrew Strathern and Pamela J. Stewart