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Ethnic identity, Christian conversion and resettlement among the Forest Tobelo of northeastern Halmahera, IndonesiaBook 1998 • Duncan, Christopher R.
Tobelo • Asia > Southeast Asia
This document is a study of how conversion to Christianity and resettlement in coastal villages have affected the ethnic identity of the Forest Tobelo, a formerly nomadic hunter-gather group of the forest interior of Halmahera Island. Instead of merg...Untangling conversionarticle 2003 • Duncan, Christopher R.
Tobelo • Asia > Southeast Asia
This study examines how and why the Forest Tobelo were rapidly converted to Christianity by foreign missionaries, after decades of unsuccessful missions from the coastal-dwelling Tobelo, with whom they share a language and kinship ties. The principal...