Fredagsseminar p? onsdag med Natalie Swanepoel - Mission as Microcosm: Landscape and Time at the Botshabelo Mission Station, Mpumalanga, South Africa
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Vi i Blindernveien 11 inviterer til gjestef?relesing med Natalie Swanepoel fr? University of South Africa f?rstkommande onsdag den 21. oktober kl. 14.15-16. Merk at f?relesinga blir i Blindernveien 9 (Teologisk fakultet), seminarrom 214:
Mission as Microcosm: Landscape and Time at the Botshabelo Mission Station, Mpumalanga, South Africa
Natalie er historisk arkeolog og kjem p? bes?k til oss fr? Uppsala Universitet, der ho for tida er gjesteforskar. Ho skriv f?lgjande om temaet:
On the nineteenth-century South African landscape, a "mission" may have comprised anything from a single building on the outskirts of a local village to a full blown mission complex containing church and educational facilities, houses belonging to both missionaries and their converts, and industrial operations such as a forge, wagonmaker's workshop and mill. While we imagine the latter category of mission station – the mission institution – as a cohesive arrangement of buildings and structures reflecting the religious, economic and political worldviews of the missionaries, it is important to note that even the most developed mission complex coalesced over time as the needs of those who lived there altered, the community grew, and the socio-political and economic context changed. Drawing on archaeological, documentary and oral sources, I explore this idea through a discussion of the Berlin Missionary Society station of Botshabelo in Mpumalanga, South Africa. Established as a "place of refuge" in 1865, it grew over time to become an important religious, economic, and educational centre. In both the nineteenth and twentieth centuries its fortunes waxed and waned in concert with broader shifts on the South African social and political landscape. This is variously reflected in the evolution of the built environment, the organisation of settlement and archaeological remains on the Botshabelo landscape as a whole.
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