essay
Aspects of the social history of Hermannsburg
Heritage of Namatjira : the watercolourists of central Australia • Port Melbourne, Victoria, Australia • Published In 1992 • Pages: [63]-96
By: Radford, Robin.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This essay presents background information on the Finke River Mission at Hermannsburg, where the Aranda watercolorist Albert Namatjira lived for most of his life. Radford describes the many difficulties that the mission faced in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in establishing itself in the area. Chief among the problems of the missionaries was acceptance by the aborigines, natural hazards such as disease and death in the hostile environment, the negative reaction of the White settlers to their presence, the anti-Germanism that endangered the mission during the two world wars, and the constant struggle for funding. Interesting vignettes are also presented on the missionary-antropologist Carl Strehlow and his role in missionary development, and on Baldwin Spencer, whose later writings on the eastern Aranda brought him world fame.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Missions
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Aranda
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1996
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Oceania
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Australia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Historian
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 1994
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- late nineteenth-early twentieth centuries
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Hermannsburg, Northern Territory, Australia
- NotesAdditional notes
- Robin Radford
- Not all of the plates mentioned in the text have been included
- Bibliographical references are in document number 47
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Aranda (Australian people)