Insecure shadows CPSA mission photographs from Southern Africa c.1895-1945
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2016-07-20
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Bester, Rory Mclachlan
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Abstract
A burqeornnq academic mterest 111IllISSICHl photcqraphy has L~Hnprdted a tairlv small
body of literature til at often perpetuates stereotypes and drchotomies about tile
photoqraphrc colonisation of Africa by nnssionanes Wltilin this literature. little, If any,
considerauon has been niven to the 1l1lSSInn photoqraphs camoui'aqed by
inadequate inventoues In South African archives This dissertation. It1 attempting to
account for a 'history' of Church of the Provrrce of SOUUl Africa (henceforth CPSA)
mission photoqraphy In southern Africa. IS all exploration of the role of <uch
photoqraphv In the demarcation at colonial spaces and the rnscnptron of colonial
Identities. Theoretical discourses of space and identity ..He not only useful to the
fra'11lng of CPSA mssion photography withlfl the visual discourses and ideologicdl
practices of colonialism, but me also valuable to an exploration of the vanous uses
and practices of photography within rrussron space, tile role of photog raphy In the
stabilisation of space and rrussionaries' attempts to Inscribe both self-identrtv and
the Identity of other peoples
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A dissertatlon submitted to the Faculty of Arts.
University of the Witwatersrand. Johannesburq,
111 fulfilmel1t of the Degree of Master at Arts.
Johannesburq. 1997