Working with Contested Ethnographic Collections to Change “Old Museum” Perspectives: Mutare Museum, Eastern Zimbabwe, 2015-2017

In this article, I will examine the history of collecting ethnographic objects at Mutare Museum, moving between the colonial and postcolonial periods in order to show how these time scales structured the ways in which exhibitions are presented. I argue that by removing ethnographic objects from thei...

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Main Author: Njabulo Chipangura
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: National Museum of the Romanian Peasant 2018-11-01
Series:Martor
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Online Access:http://martor.muzeultaranuluiroman.ro/archive/martor-23-2018/chipangura_2018/