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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Mission Station"”.
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A sortie into the archaeology of the Moravian mission station, Genadendal
… suggested the archaeology of the Moravian Mission at Genadendal as a possible avenue through which the archaeological 'void' regarding the Khoekhoen, post 1652, could be addressed. Building on this suggestion, the primary aim of this research was to find evidence of the Khoekhoen who lived …
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Exploration of community perspectives towards Georgenholtz mission station as a heritage resource
… activities taking place around the history of Mission stations and missionaries in South Africa (SA). In Venda, in the Limpopo Province of SA, research about the Berlin Missionary Society (BMS) also gained momentum. Most of the researchers working in the area relied mainly on diaries, letters, …
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Plaatberg on the Caledon Bastaards: hunters, raiders and traders or pious converts of the Wesleyan Missionary Society?
Plaatberg mission station was established in 1833 by the Wesleyan Missionary Society specifically to minister to a group of people known as Bastaards, under the leadership of Carolus Baatje. As new arrivals in Transorangia who had crossed the boundary from the Cape Colony, the Plaatberg Bastaards …
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Land rights & identity: the establishment of the Leliefontein Mission and its impact on the Little Namaqua of the Kamiesberg
… opted for the protection afforded to them by a mission station. It is this group of Little Namaqua, those under Chief Wildschut, who form the basis of this research. By 1816 the Little Namaqua under Wildschut had invited the Wesleyan missionary, Barnabas Shaw, to establish a mission station at …
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The Community of Steinkopf : an stenographic study and an analysis of social °hangs in Namaqualand
… people who live on a reserve surrounding the old mission station, Steinkopf, in the North-Western Cape Province. It has been written primarily as an ethnographic study of one of the constituent communities of a composite society, the Republic of South Africa, although a chapter has been devoted to …
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A reconstruction of the History of St. Andrews Roman Catholic Parish in an Evangelical stronghold of Kasempa District
… It reports challenges that the Catholic missionaries faced when opening the mission station and the contributions made towards the development of the people around St. Andrews Parish in Kasempa district. There has been no study or written history of St. Andrews Catholic Church in …
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A reconstruction of the History of St. Andrews Roman Catholic Parish in an Evangelical stronghold of Kasempa District
… It reports challenges that the Catholic missionaries faced when opening the mission station and the contributions made towards the development of the people around St. Andrews Parish in Kasempa district. There has been no study or written history of St. Andrews Catholic Church in …
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Wupperthal: listening to the past
The community of the Wupperthal Mission Station and its satellite stations, forms the focus of this text. The mission is situated in the Tra-Tra River Valley in the Cederberg Mountains of the Western Cape. In this text, I have sketched a series of vignettes to portray the lives of certain …
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To labor as an Indian travels: what the Spokan Indians taught the Eells and Walkers, early missionaries on the Columbia Plateau
… related to the Spokan is different from other missionary tales. Their peaceful existence and daily cultural exchanges shines a gentler light on this era of transition on the Columbia Plateau. Their story should not distract from what occurred elsewhere in the Oregon Country during the 1830s and …
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Fort Merensky : Abditory & Observatory : Narrating the Botshabelo story through acts of hiding and revealing
… has been identified in the forgotten Mpumalanga mission station, Botshabelo. It is remembered as a place of harmony between different cultures, the natural and man-made landscape, this once self-sustainable, flourishing settlement that now stands abandoned and in a state of decay (Langhan, …
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Independens long Vanuatu: the churches and politics in a Melanesian nation
… focusing specifically on the history of the missions up to the end of the 1960s. Chapter III looks at the independence movement and recent political history. In Chapter IV I examine the relationship between the churches and politics in two contrasting rural areas: at the Catholic mission …
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Perceptions of heritage and conservation control in lower-income communities : the case of Mamre
… within the context of Mamre, a historical mission station approximately 50 km north of Cape Town. Firstly, several descriptive scenarios around which the research question could be explored were constructed, and this was followed by an investigation of the relevant literature. A contextual …
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To bry or not to bry: the social meanings of Afrikaans rhotic variation in the South Cape
… are residents of Houtiniquadorp, which was a mission station in South Africa's colonial era and declared a Coloured residential area during apartheid. In South Africa, place has been politicised due to colonialism and apartheid. I argue that the racialisation of places contributes to …
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The necessity of the second phase of Evangelization among Vambunza in the Bunya area of the northeastern parts of Namibia
… of people living there are called Vambunza. The Mission Christianity has left the local people with unclear consciences. There is a tension between Christianity and culture. This is due to the fact that many cultural and traditional objects were never taken as a starting point of evangelization …
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Missions and social identities in the Lower Orange River Basin, 1760-1998
… of Pella, a communal area with a Roman Catholic mission station, and studies of other former Coloured and Nama Reserves associated with Christian missions in the Lower Orange River Basin of Namaqualand. A distinctive historical feature of this region is a general trend towards social integration …
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A Study of Select Decisions That Fostered the Growth and Development of Solusi University in Zimbabwe
… the Chartered Company, and obtained from him permission for a possible land grant for the mission station. This was the beginning of the mission endeavor by many missionaries who went to Solusi and served as mission workers. Various factors, both natural and political, greatly impacted the …
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When shall these dry bones live?' : interactions between the London Missionary Society and the San along the Cape's North-Eastern Frontier, 1790-1833
… analysis of the interactions between the London Missionary Society (LMS) and the San during the period from 1799, when the LMS first arrived at the Cape, to 1833, when the LMS abandoned Bushman Station, the last concerted effort on the part of the Society to administer a mission station directed …
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Casting off the old Kaross: the Little Namaqualand missions, 1805-1848
This thesis is a history of the development of missionary activity in the Little Namaqualand region of southern Africa during the first half of the nineteenth century. Through a rich analysis of the archival documents of the various missionary societies who worked in the region, it attempts to fill …