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dc.contributor.advisorWitz, Leslie
dc.contributor.authorMtotha, Comfort Tamanda
dc.date.accessioned2017-09-04T14:28:38Z
dc.date.available2017-09-04T14:28:38Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11394/5543
dc.descriptionMagister Artium - MAen_US
dc.description.abstractA wide range of scholarly inquiries have engaged with how museums all over the world deal with societal issues and the way the public interacts with the museum as a space of transaction and knowledge production. In Malawi, only a small proportion of literature deals with the museums and their relationship to the wider understanding of the country's history and the question of nationalism. However, as modern museums are transforming and reconfiguring themselves in dealing with histories of collection and calls for repatriation of ethnographic objects and human remains from their European counterparts are being made, there is no scholarly work or a nuanced representation on these issues for the Museums of Malawi. This study engages with a biography of a collection to think about museums, nationalism and the politics of repatriation. This biography begins when this collection of objects was collected from the tea plantations of Malawi and how it metamorphosizes from souvenirs to artifacts of rarity and then to "national treasures." The life of the collection is analysed and understood through its multiple journeys from Malawi to Europe and then to the United States of America where it attains a new meaning in a museum before its return to Malawi for a nationalist cause.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipCentre for Humanities Research (CHR), University of the Western Capeen_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of the Western Capeen_US
dc.subjectMalawien_US
dc.subjectMuseumsen_US
dc.subjectVictor and Theodore Cox collectionen_US
dc.subjectMuseums of Malawien_US
dc.titleThe cox collection, the museums of Malawi and the politics of repatriation, 1892-2016en_US
dc.rights.holderUniversity of the Western Capeen_US


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