Browsing by Subject "Germanness"

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Adele Steinwender : observations of a German woman living on a Berlin mission station as recorded in her diary

Brammer, Birgit (University of Pretoria, 2008-09-10)

In 1885 Adele Steinwender arrived in South Africa from Germany. Her vocation was that of a teacher, but unlike the majority of white women who moved to the colonies to teach, Steinwender taught the children of the missionaries, ...
The Afrikadeutschen of Kroondal 1849 - 1949

Melck, Marcus (University of Pretoria, 2012)

The history of the Afrikadeutschen of Kroondal that began with the formation of the Hermannsburg Mission Society in 1849 and that grew to encompass a century of German nationalism over the course of the late nineteenth and ...
Design as a stabilising force : an exploration of the visual rhetoric of objects in a South African German community with reference to narrative and cultural identity

Dedekind, Heidel (University of Pretoria, 2012)

This study explores the role of design as a force that may stabilise cultural identity in a cultural climate of globalisation through the use of visual rhetoric and narrative. It focuses specifically on the heritage and ...

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