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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Moravian Mission"”.
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A sortie into the archaeology of the Moravian mission station, Genadendal
… Tony Humphreys 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 …
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Communal identity and historical claims to land in South Africa : the cases of the Clarkson Moravian Mission and the Tsitsikamma Mfengu
… this thesis we examine the case of the Clarkson Mission and Tsitsikamma Mfengu communities on the Southern Cape Coast of South Africa, and highlight some of the ambiguities prevalent in their contested claims of entitlement to the Clarkson mission land. Their respective notions of communal …
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Land tenure and environmental conditions at Wupperthal
… informal land tenure practised internally at the Moravian mission settlement of Wupperthal. The study analyses the system of tenure in terms of formal recognized systems, that exist or have existed in the past, and also in terms of the settlement's physical and social environment. Suggestions are …
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Missions and emancipation in the South Western Cape : a case study of Groenekloof (Mamre), 1838-1852
… for the former slaves who settled at the Moravian mission at Groenekloof. This was situated in the wheat-producing Malmesbury district of the Cape Colony. The dissertation takes the form of a case study of nearly 700 people and focusses on the period from December 1838 to December 1852. …
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Studio Notes
My current research project is concerned with the Moravian mission settlement of Elim, as established by German missionaries in 1824, and situated in close proximity to Bredasdorp in the Overberg region of the Western Cape. I identify with this specific mission settlement as a descendant who …
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The development of the coloured community Genadendal under the influence of the missionaries of the Unitas Fratrum 1792 - 1892
… underline a small facet of the influence of the Missionaries on the Coloured people at the Cape in the nineteenth century; to describe the impact of Christianity on Single social unit, which was a fusion of primitive Hottentot and slave elements, subject to strung Euro-pean (white) pressure, both …
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An historical demographic investigation into mortality in three historical birth cohorts born between 1837 and 1900 in Mamre, with special reference to life expectancy
… through existing parish records of the Moravian Mission at Mamre in the Western Cape region of South Africa. Nominative data collection techniques were used to gather information needed to determine the infant mortality rates, quinquennial mortality rates and life expectancies of the …
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Mellem afrikaner og kreol : etnisk identitet og social navigation i Dansk Vestindien 1730–1770
… as a micro study focusing on members of the Moravian congregation. It is divided in five chapters. The first chapter argues that African ethnic designations reflect African Caribbeans' own ideas of belonging to ethnically defined groups referring to Africa. At the same time, however, it is shown …