ANTH 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 31: John X. Merriman, Basel Mission, Rogation Days
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Many whites were arriving in southern african from europe, canada and australia to. Africans throughout east, central and southern africa were becoming peasants work in the mines. Unequal terms of trade, tax and rent. The revived and invented rituals of craft unionism were used by white workers to exclude. Elaine katz white miners claimed craft status. Union organized on the basis of an exclusive membership restricted to white underground miners in possession of a blasting certificate. John x merriman (prime minister of cape colony) white european lower class men were seen in a position of an aristocracy of color in africa. Only through some of the mission churches did european peasant formulations reach. Basel mission production and local food supplies. Model of rural society derived from defense of pre-industrial german peasant life. Social economic and economic setting direct relationship between local food. Original impulse of their entry into africa was the desire to find free land.