In 1994 James Peacock, the President of the American Anthropological Association called for a special symposium titled "Missionaries and Human Rights." He asked Thomas Headland to organize and chair that session. This two-day Presidential Session was held at the 93rd Annual Meeting of the AAA in December 1994, with 17 speakers presenting papers. Media reports on that symposium were published in over one hundred newspapers in the USA and overseas in early 1995.
In May 1996 the American Society of Missiology published several of those papers as a special theme issue of their journal Missiology: An International Review (vol. 24, no. 2), guest-edited by Headland. While avoiding polemics, opposing authors in this 108-page debate argue both for and against the Western Christian mission enterprise.
The volume begins with a powerful essay by AAA President Peacock. A final chapter is a bibliographic goldmine of 53 annotated key references on the history of the anthropologist-versus-missionary conflict.
For the list of authors and chapter titles, and how to order this $7 volume, see http://www.sil.org/anthro/missiology_book.html.