Dienstag, 07. Mai 2024, 17:15 - 19:15 iCal

u:africa-talk: Missionary Ethnography

Indigenous Knowledge and/or African Christian Modernity?

Speaker: Lize Kriel (University of Pretoria)

Department of African Studies, Univeristy Campus Court 5.1, Seminar room 1
Spitalgasse 2, 1090 Wien

Lecture

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Between 1904 and 1934 Missionary Carl Hoffmann collected enough material from African evangelists and pastors of the Berlin Mission Church in northern South Africa to fill a dozen articles published in Hamburg University’s journal for African languages. In 2015 these articles were annotated and translated from German into English as “Sotho Texts from the Woodbush Mountains”. A lot remains to be unraveled from these texts. This presentation focuses on the frequent references to the treatment of visitors, guests, travelers, fugitives, intruders, and strangers in the African interlocutors’ discussions. While the texts explain a lot about African practices (past, present, idealised), they also remind the missionary-ethnographer and his readers (past to present) of their own visitor-status as they try to imagine the Woodbush world and its people in a previous century.

 

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Veranstalter

Department of African Studies, Univeristy of Vienna

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Kontakt

Sandra Benecchi
Universität Wien
Institut für Afrikawissenschaften
01427743223
sandra.benecchi@univie.ac.at

Erstellt am Freitag, 26. April 2024, 10:43
Letzte Änderung am Dienstag, 07. Mai 2024, 09:09