Anthropological Insights for Missionaries

Baker Academic Publishing, 1986. Paperback. New. New softcover in glossy printed wraps. Text is clean and free of marks and underlining. Includes bibliography, index, and figures. 316 pp.


Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. Expert anthropologist shows missionaries how to better understand the people they serve and their historical and cultural settings.

"In this book Paul Hiebert has pulled together an impressive array of insights (from his own missionary experience and from the experience of other missionaries) which anthropology offers the would-be missionary. . . . The book has been written in an easy-to-read, straightforward style. Hiebert provides an abundance of primary sources for those who might want to pursue further individual insights. It is a book that will be valuable to mission executives, missionary candidates, and even experienced missionaries."
-Jacob A. Loewen, Missiology


"This is a book that needed to be written. . . . No single volume focuses the insights derived from the study of anthropology so comprehensively and yet so practically on the life and work of the average evangelical missionary as does this one. While ideal as a supplementary text for a course in missionary anthropology, this book can be read with real profit by anyone engaged in or contemplating a cross-cultural ministry. . . . The book is replete with helpful tables, charts, diagrams, and carefully selected excerpts from other writers. . . . This is the kind of book that deserves to be read not only at the beginning of one's missionary career but also at five-year intervals thereafter."
-Kenneth Mulholland, Evangelical Missions Quarterly.