Through a glass, darkly: photographs of the Leipzig Mission from East Africa, 1896-1939
Five aspects of everyday life in the mission field -- Photography and its uses in the Leipzig Mission -- Children of missionaries as depicted in Leipzig Mission photographs -- Music and dance in Leipzig Mission photographs -- Historical landscapes through photos : what words do not reveal in norther...
| Résumé: | Five aspects of everyday life in the mission field -- Photography and its uses in the Leipzig Mission -- Children of missionaries as depicted in Leipzig Mission photographs -- Music and dance in Leipzig Mission photographs -- Historical landscapes through photos : what words do not reveal in northern Tanzania. "The book presents photographs taken in what is now northern Tanzania by Lutheran missionaries from Leipzig in the first four decades of the twentieth century. It touches briefly on upon certain fields of everyday life (gender, medicine, schools, architecture, "other" customs) and up ways in which photographs were used for publicity. Longer chapters deal with the portrayal of missionary children, of music and dance, as well as of the landscape."--Page 4 of cover |
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| Description: | Literaturangaben Includes bibliographical references |
| ISBN: | 3865837778 |