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| Title: | Constituting Community: The Contested Rural Land Claim of the Tsitsikamma 'Fingo/Mfengu' and Clarkson Moravian Mission in South Africa |
| Author: | Jannecke, Crystal |
| Year: | 2006 |
| Periodical: | Kronos: Journal of Cape History |
| Issue: | 32 |
| Pages: | 192-215 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | South Africa |
| Subjects: | land rights communities Fingo communal lands group identity missions Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) History and Exploration Religion and Witchcraft Law, Human Rights and Violence Ethnic and Race Relations |
| External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/41056564 |
| Abstract: | A group calling itself the Tsitsikamma 'Fingo/Mfengu' community lodged a land claim against the Moravian Church in 1991. They demanded the Church's return of the Clarkson Moravian Mission land held since the 1830s on behalf of and in trust for the 'Fingoes'. This article explores how an inclusive demand for the restoration of dispossessed 'Fingo/Mfengu ancestral land' in the Tsitsikamma (South Africa) included the Moravian Mission land, but excluded its residing mission community. It argues that by functioning discursively as the central place of return to the Tsitsikamma, the Clarkson mission land symbolically marks the boundary against which a contemporary ethnic Tsitsikamma 'Fingo/Mfengu' community is formed. In its exclusion from sharing 'ancestral' rights in the Clarkson land, the residing mission community is constructed as the 'constitutive outside' aimed at legitimating 'Fingo/Mfengu' communal entitlement to the mission land. Notes, ref. [ASC Leiden abstract] |
