Kristen mission og kvinders øgede mulighedsrum

The article has a double objective: to emphasize the diversity of the roles and career opportunities that foreign missionary activities could provide for female missionaries, and to show how converts spawned by these missionary endeavours used their new religious affiliation and faith to actively change their worldly positions and possibilities. The analyses are based on published and unpublished material from the tiny Scandinavian mission society ‘Den Frie Østafrikanske Mission’, that worked in Natal and Zululand in present day South Africa from 1889-1899

Erindringskultur: Sammenfiltringer af fortid, nutid og fremtid: Eksempelstudier af kolonihistorisk erindringspolitik

En af etnologiens store styrker er traditionen for at lade historiske og nutidige perspektiver indgå som analytiske ressourcer i samme undersøgelse. Studier af erindringskultur kan ses som en særlig variant af dette, hvor fokus er på, hvorledes måder at præsentere fortiden på indgår i forhandlinger om nutidige relationer og ofte også etablerer forskellige forestillinger om mulige fremtider. I bidraget reflekteres over forskellige erindringsstrategier med særligt fokus på flygtighed og permanens, og mulige implikationer af dem diskuteres

Nordic Perspectives on Encountering Foreignness

The foreign can be revered, produced, reproduced, submerged, feared or suppressed, but it has never failed to engage one way or the other. In this volume, a multidisciplinary research network Enfore (Encountering Foreignness – Nordic Perspectives since the Eighteenth Century) focuses on the cultural dynamics of “foreignness”. The authors explore the continuous negotiation between “ours” and “theirs” and the making of “our” place in the context of the wider world. They are using the concept of foreignness as an analytical tool for making visible this heterogeneous, variable and diverse phenomenon. Drawing on the findings within the Nordic context, the group will contribute to an understanding of the general processional and dynamic character of foreignness and of the relationship between metropolitan centers and peripheral areas elsewhere in Europe and in the wider world.Siirretty Doriast