Capturing The Soul The Vhavenda & The Mi Secondhand

In Capturing the Soul. The Vhavenda and the missionaries, 1870-1900, Kirkaldy brings together much of his work on the activities of the missionaries of the Berlin Missionary Society among the Vhavenda. This book, drawing from his doctoral thesis, is largely a critical reading of the Berlin Mission records. Instead of a chronological approach, Kirkaldy has used these records to investigate a number of themes. These themes pick up various post-colonial concerns such as landscape, visual representation, the body and relationships of power, and culminate in the case study of the Mphaphuli rulers.