The schooling of the world through the lenses of the protestant missionary camera: snapshots of the Unevangelized Fields Mission (1931 - 1944)

The study focuses on the contributions of the Protestant missionary camera in the formation of a transnational visual narrative of the school experience. To do so, it articulates a set of photographs produced as part of the educational project of the Unevangelized Fields Mission (UFM), between 1932 and 1944, which circulated through the journal Light and Life. The historiographical construction is inspired by conceptual propositions that deal with photography as a dynamic historical document that can be updated and has its own reading statutes. In conclusion, an analytical essay is presented on the visual traces of the UFM educational project, with the aim of contributing to a transnational visual history of education.

Keywords:
missionary photography; indigenous schools; protestant education; transnational visual history