ISSN:
0066-4677
Language:
English
Titel der Quelle:
Anthropological forum : an international journal of social and cultural anthropology and comparative sociology
Publ. der Quelle:
Abingdon : Routledge, Taylor & Francis
Angaben zur Quelle:
Vol. 27, No. 3 (2017), p. 209
DDC:
390
Abstract:
As some of the first people to spend extended amounts of time with Indigenous peoples, missionaries were well placed to provide information to European and colonial audiences on non-European peoples. Moravian missionaries arrived in Australia in the mid-nineteenth century and over the next six decades worked amongst numerous Indigenous groups in the south-eastern part of Australia, in the interior, and in northern Queensland. This paper will trace the contributions made by German Moravian missionaries to anthropological and ethnographical knowledge both in the colonies as well as in Germany. It will particularly focus upon the connections forged in religious and scientific networks through anthropological work. The paper contends that a unified German identity was forged through scientific work that transcended denominational boundaries. Moreover, the ability to disseminate ethnographical knowledge within secular circles, both in the colonies and in Germany, provided legitimisation to missionary work and embedded missionaries within global knowledge networks. Through examining the work of one individual missionary, Friedrich Hagenauer, the fragility of these global knowledge networks is explored.
Note:
Copyright: © 2017 Discipline of Anthropology and Sociology, The University of Western Australia 2017
DOI:
10.1080/00664677.2017.1365689
URL:
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00664677.2017.1365689
