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A historical archaeological inverstigation into two recent households of the Motse, Botshabelo Mission Station, Middelburg, Mpumalanga, South Africa

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dc.contributor.advisor Swanepoel, Natalie
dc.contributor.author Booth, Caroline Rosine Claude Christiane Chislaine
dc.date.accessioned 2017-06-21T14:03:58Z
dc.date.available 2017-06-21T14:03:58Z
dc.date.issued 2017-01
dc.identifier.citation Booth, Caroline Rosine Claude Christiane Chislaine (2017) A historical archaeological inverstigation into two recent households of the Motse, Botshabelo Mission Station, Middelburg, Mpumalanga, South Africa, University of South Africa, Pretoria, <http://hdl.handle.net/10500/22696>
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10500/22696
dc.description.abstract The archaeological research was conducted at Botshabelo, a nineteenth century Berlin Mission Society station located outside Middelburg, Mpumalanga. It focuses primarily on the collection of residential houses and homesteads in the area known as the Motse, meaning “village” in Sotho. This is where the mission station’s African residents lived. This research seeks to use archaeology, specifically the study of the associated material culture, in order to refine the chronology of changes to settlement in this area, and to explore the ways in which the inhabitants interacted with other sectors of the mission station community and the then wider Transvaal society. Although the mission station and its settlement dates from 1865, the material culture excavated and analysed in this project is primarily from the twentieth century. It is through the careful analysis of these houses and their architecture, together with the associated material culture that the social and cultural values of the people who built and used them can be explored. To date there has been a copious amount of research done on these mission stations in southern Africa, flowing mainly from the disciplines of history and anthropology (Comaroff and Comaroff 1991; Delius 1981; Japha et al 1993; Kirkaldy 2005; Vernal 2009). In contrast, however, there has been relatively little archaeological research carried out on the various mission stations within southern Africa (but see Ashley 2010; Boshoff 2004; Clift 2001; Jeppson 2005; Reid et al 1997). This research project is based in archaeology, and in particular in the discipline of historical archaeology, which can provide the methodologies and approaches that can be used to make sense of the history of the Botshabelo Mission Station and the Motse. This research therefore intends to contribute to the currently under researched field of mission archaeology within South Africa.
dc.format.extent 1 online resource (16 unnumbered leaves, 223 leaves) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color), photographs (chiefly color)
dc.language.iso en
dc.subject Historical archaeology en
dc.subject Contemporary past en
dc.subject Mission stations en
dc.subject Lutheran en
dc.subject Ethnography en
dc.subject Households en
dc.subject Consumption en
dc.subject Architecture en
dc.subject Spatial analysis en
dc.subject Social relations en
dc.subject.ddc 266.4168276
dc.subject.lcsh Berliner Missionsgesellschaft en
dc.subject.lcsh Household archaeology -- South Africa -- Botschabelo en
dc.subject.lcsh Excavations (Archaeology) -- South Africa -- Botschabelo en
dc.subject.lcsh Archaeology and history -- South Africa -- Botschabelo en
dc.subject.lcsh Sotho (African people) -- South Africa -- Botschabelo -- History en
dc.subject.lcsh Missionary settlements -- South Africa -- Botschabelo en
dc.subject.lcsh Archaeology and architecture -- South Africa -- Botschabelo en
dc.subject.lcsh Lutheran Church -- Missions -- South Africa -- Botschabelo en
dc.subject.lcsh South Africa -- Botschabelo -- Antiquities en
dc.title A historical archaeological inverstigation into two recent households of the Motse, Botshabelo Mission Station, Middelburg, Mpumalanga, South Africa en
dc.type Dissertation en
dc.description.department Anthropology and Archaeology
dc.description.degree M.A. (Archaeology)


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