Place Of Refuge: "The Fighting Missionary", Alexander Merensky, And The Forts Of Botshabelo Mission Station, South Africa.
Author(s): Natalie J Swanepoel
Year: 2018
Summary
Botshabelo Mission Station, Mpumalanga, South Africa was established in 1865 within the borders of the Zuid Afrikaanse Republiek (ZAR) by Alexander Merensky and groups of Bapedi and Bakopa converts and refugees, all of whom had been displaced from territories further to the north through processes of intra-societal and colonial violence. It is perhaps for this reason that the mission station boasted three forts, unusual features for such a site. This paper examines the ways in which the object biographies of the site’s forts intertwine with the life histories of the Berlin missionary, Merensky and the other residents on the station, as well as the ways in which they have been memorialised.
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Place Of Refuge: "The Fighting Missionary", Alexander Merensky, And The Forts Of Botshabelo Mission Station, South Africa.. Natalie J Swanepoel. Presented at Society for Historical Archaeology, New Orleans, Louisiana. 2018 ( tDAR id: 441195)
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Keywords
General
Biography
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Forts
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mission
Geographic Keywords
South Africa
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Sub-Saharan Africa
Temporal Keywords
19th-20th Centuries
Spatial Coverage
min long: 16.49; min lat: -46.97 ; max long: 37.82; max lat: -22.192 ;
Individual & Institutional Roles
Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology
Record Identifiers
PaperId(s): 251