Creating the moral body: Missionaries and the technology of power in earlyPapua New Guinea

British missionaries went to Papua New Guinea in order to create a new mora l body: a Christian character that would fit into Great Britain's colonial world. Education by missionaries became, in an interpretation paralleling t he theories of Michel Foucault, technologies of power for imposing particul ar forms of social discipline upon individuals so that they might want to b ecome part of the institutional relationships that favored Christianity and colonialism at the expense of local forms of life. These technologies of p ower were established during the early stages of missionary education. (Mis sionaries, technologies of power, the moral body, colonialism, Papua New Gu inea).