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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"mission stations"”.
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Livelihood and status struggles in the mission stations of the Universities’ Mission to Central Africa (UMCA), north-eastern Tanzania and Zanzibar, 1864-1926
… that took place in and around the Universities’ Mission to Central Africa (UMCA) in two very different regions: north-eastern Tanzania and Zanzibar. The mission was for much of the period a space in which people could – often inventively – make a living through education, employment, and …
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“To the black women we all know”: three women's contemporary mobilizations of history in relation to questions of status, belonging, and identity in Mpolweni Mission, KwaZulu-Natal
… status by the state. Individuals in former mission stations in turn have referenced the prominence of their families’ histories in the establishment of mission stations. Clearly, the past has potent usability for numerous actors in this province. Rarely have scholars focused on how different …
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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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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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Limits of settlement: Racialized masculinity, sovereignty, and the imperial project in colonial Natal, 1850-1897
… in colonial Natal. Using settler newspapers, missionary periodicals, British and South African archival sources, and popular contemporary travel accounts, this dissertation looks at the development of the colony of Natal in the second half of the nineteenth century by examining debates over …
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African perceptions of the missionaries and their message : Wesleyans at Mount Coke and Butterworth, 1825-35
Missionary endeavours in the Eastern Cape were characterized by African resistance to the Christian Gospel during the first half of the nineteenth century. Current explanations for this rejection point to the opposition of the chiefs, the association that the listeners made between the missionaries …
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European impacts on the Seacow River valley and its hunter-gatherer inhabitants, AD. 1770-1900
… to the colonial presence in the form of farms, mission stations and towns. Some Bushmen lived independently from these centres, while others were related to these centres in different ways. The documentation of this differing response to the colonial presence not only provides a context for the …
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The history of the Moravian Brass Band Union of South Africa (BBSA) as told through the personal histories of members, and its contemporary role in the Moravian Church in South Africa (MCSA)
… the origins of the BBSA, with its roots in the missionary activities of the Moravian Church and the establishment of brass bands within the mission stations, particularly in Genadendal. The thesis investigates how the BBSA has contributed to the musical and spiritual development of the church, …
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American missionaries in Iran, 1834-1934
American missionaries contributed significantly to the introduction into Iran of some elements of western culture, especially in the areas of education and medicine. The first of these missionaries went to Persia in 1832 to explore the possibility of establishing a base for the activities of the …
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Towards a regional development strategy for Namaqualand
… was forced into uninhabitable areas, and mission stations were established to reserve land for local people, are traced. The contradictory role of missionaries is analysed as well as Government and other's efforts to coerce the region's inhabitants into wage labour. Relevant literature is …
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Letters home : the experiences and perceptions of middle class British women at the Cape 1820-1850
… in Cape Town, on the eastern frontier and on mission stations lived in different circumstances. The contexts in which they wrote affected the versions of themselves that they revealed in their writing. The different ways in which they wrote, and they ways in which they constructed a d …