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CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY FOR MISSIONS M.M.NINAN learn to live a bicultural life, with one foot in each culture. He will be accepted as a friend and will be trusted. But he will be treated always as an outsider. In some cases this distinction can be helpful, in that he say be able to command some respect and hearing. ASSIMILATION But a much better way of acculturation is by ASSIMILATION. In this the missionary identifies himself with the host culture completely. He will wear their clothes, speak their language with ease and behave like them. Assimilation will open up new intimacies that are not open to an outsiders bringing with it greater opportunities for evangelization. Since Sudanese are a family centered people, a missionary family will have greater chance of building up trust. QUESTIONS 1. Classify human behavior. Give examples for each of them from human life or from non-human life. 2. What is the difference between acculturation and enculturation? 3. In spite of the same cultural matrix in which a child is brought up, one develops into a unique person. Why? 4. What are some of the educational processes in your tribe? (Describe both formal and informal training.) 5. Compare the merits and demerits of bilingual missions and assimilated missions. 6. Develop several strategies for entering a culture in order to communicate the good news. 43
CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY FOR MISSIONS M.M.NINAN CHAPTER FIVE COMMUNICATION We can communicate with each other in many different ways. Body stance, gestures, tone of voice, signs and symbols and even through body temperatures and wetness and pressure we can communicate. But the most important of them all is verbal communication or the spoken language. The development of language has confounded scientists very much. There are three basic observations for this: 1. Intuitively we might suppose that languages of nonliterary people, which do not have any writing, would be less developed than those languages that are used by advanced cultures where there are advanced technologies art and crafts. But this is not true. All languages are full blown with grammatical structure and are capable of expanding as the need for new words arises. There are no primitive languages and there never have been any. 44
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