ENMU Hosting 'Surprising Impact of Missionary Work'

ENMU Hosting 'Surprising Impact of Missionary Work'

The guest lecturer for the 17th Annual Cynthia Irwin-Williams Lectureship is Michael F. Brown, president of the School for Advanced Research in Santa Fe.

Brown will discuss the paradoxical effects of Christian conversion among the Jivaroan Awajun people of eastern Peru. He will highlight what the story says about the limits of ethnographic representation, and his books will be available for purchase.

The lectureship, sponsored by the ENMU Department of Anthropology and Applied Archaeology and Mu Alpha Nu, is free and open to the public. For more information, call 575.562.2206 or email [email protected].