A Biography of Place: Thinking between Text, Practice, and Space at the Mission of St. Joseph, Senegal

Historical Archaeology - Tập 57 Số 3 - Trang 912-931 - 2023
Pacyga, Johanna Alaimo1
1Department of Anthropology, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, U.S.A.

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A “biography of place” is presented as a means for parsing the relationship between missionization and place at the Catholic Mission of Saint Joseph, Ngasobil, Senegal (1863–1930). The traditional biographical approach is a potent mode of thinking through missionary landscapes that allows the gleaning of more information about the materiality of missionization; however, here, an additional understanding of biography—one focused on the act of writing itself—is explored in order to understand the ways in which missionaries themselves thought about making the mission place. A biography of St. Joseph’s is already occurring in the archives, which are read as metaphorically hagiographic in their attribution of divine agency to the mission place as a means of producing conversion and vocation. Through these two lines of evidence, it becomes clear that mission leadership thought explicitly about how being in Ngasobil served to cultivate faithfulness and to produce religious vocations.

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