GB 0102 MS 380515 - Earthy, Emily Dora

3 boxes

GB 0102 MS 380515 Created 1917-1930 Collection (fonds) 3 boxes Earthy , Emily Dora , fl 1917-1958 , missionary
Emily Dora Earthy (known as Dora Earthy) worked as a missionary in Portugese East Africa (Mozambique) for the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, from September 1917 to December 1930. She then obtained a grant from the Research Committee of Bantu Studies of the University of Witwatersrand, to cover six month's fieldwork among the Valenge women of that country, compiling raw material for her book Valenge Women: the social and economic life of the Valenge women of Portugese East Africa (Oxford University Press, 1933).

Donated in 1987.

Papers, 1917-1930, collected by Dora Earthy during her fieldwork amongst the Valenge women, including notes and drafts of her book Valenge Women: the social and economic life of the Valenge women of Portugese East Africa in various typed and hand-written stages.

Unrestricted.

No publication without written permission. Apply to archivist in the first instance.
English; some manuscript notes in Lenge, Chopi

Unpublished handlist.

Records of the United Society for the Propagation of the Gospel are held Rhodes House Library, South Parks Road, Oxford.

15 May 2000 African cultures Authors Cultural anthropology Cultural heritage Customs and traditions Earthy , Emily Dora , fl 1917-1958 , missionary x Earthy , Dora Ethnology Field work Gender roles Lay missionaries Missionaries Mozambique National cultures Portuguese East Africa Religious groups Research work Social roles Social stratification Southern Africa United Society for the Propagation of the Gospel x Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts Women authors Women missionaries

Donated in 1987.

Papers, 1917-1930, collected by Dora Earthy during her fieldwork amongst the Valenge women, including notes and drafts of her book Valenge Women: the social and economic life of the Valenge women of Portugese East Africa in various typed and hand-written stages.

Unrestricted.

No publication without written permission. Apply to archivist in the first instance.

• anglais

• latin

English; some manuscript notes in Lenge, Chopi

Unpublished handlist.

Records of the United Society for the Propagation of the Gospel are held Rhodes House Library, South Parks Road, Oxford.

• anglais