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Butterflies and Barbarians: Swiss Missionaries and Systems of Knowledge in South-East Africa
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This article is published in Social Sciences and Missions.The article was published on 2008-01-01. It has received 11 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: History of religions.read more
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Children's digital literacy practices in unequal South African settings
Polo Lemphane,Mastin Prinsloo +1 more
TL;DR: The authors compared children's digital communicative literacy practices in two homes in Cape Town, South Africa, showing major differences between how suburban middle-class children, on one hand, and urban township children encounter and engage with digital resources at home.
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The Soul of the Luba: W.F.P. Burton, Missionary Ethnography and Belgian Colonial Science
TL;DR: This article examined the motivations, institutions and processes involved in colonial knowledge formation through a study of the missionary William Burton, and showed how he moved from an aggressive intrusive mode of research to a position of greater sympathy as he came to consider their cultural riches through study of language, proverb and folklore.
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Slavery, Indenture and Migrant Labour: Maritime Immigration from Mozambique to the Cape, c.1780–1880
TL;DR: In the 1770s, the Cape became an important destination for slaves from East Africa and became a major supplier of slaves as discussed by the authors, but this trade ended in 1808 with the implementation of the Act of Abolition but was quickly replaced by the importation of freed slaves seized from ships going to South America, who were subjected to 14-year apprenticeships.
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‘From “the poor heathen” to “the glory and honour of all nations”: vocabularies of race and custom in Protestant missions, 1844-1928’
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a children's bedtime story from the Juvenile Missionary Magazine, published by the London Missionary Society (LMS) in 1844, where the author described the Batswana people at Kuruman in what is now the Northern Cape Province of South Africa.
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Children's digital literacy practices in unequal South African settings
Polo Lemphane,Mastin Prinsloo +1 more
TL;DR: The authors compared children's digital communicative literacy practices in two homes in Cape Town, South Africa, showing major differences between how suburban middle-class children, on one hand, and urban township children encounter and engage with digital resources at home.
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The Soul of the Luba: W.F.P. Burton, Missionary Ethnography and Belgian Colonial Science
TL;DR: This article examined the motivations, institutions and processes involved in colonial knowledge formation through a study of the missionary William Burton, and showed how he moved from an aggressive intrusive mode of research to a position of greater sympathy as he came to consider their cultural riches through study of language, proverb and folklore.
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Slavery, Indenture and Migrant Labour: Maritime Immigration from Mozambique to the Cape, c.1780–1880
TL;DR: In the 1770s, the Cape became an important destination for slaves from East Africa and became a major supplier of slaves as discussed by the authors, but this trade ended in 1808 with the implementation of the Act of Abolition but was quickly replaced by the importation of freed slaves seized from ships going to South America, who were subjected to 14-year apprenticeships.
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‘From “the poor heathen” to “the glory and honour of all nations”: vocabularies of race and custom in Protestant missions, 1844-1928’
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a children's bedtime story from the Juvenile Missionary Magazine, published by the London Missionary Society (LMS) in 1844, where the author described the Batswana people at Kuruman in what is now the Northern Cape Province of South Africa.