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Title:Twentieth century Malawi: perspectives on history and culture
Editors:MacCracken, JohnISNI
Lovering, Timothy J.ISNI
Chalamanda, Fiona JohnsonISNI
Year:2001
Issue:7
Pages:118
Language:English
Series:Occasional paper
City of publisher:Stirling
Publisher:Centre of Commonwealth Studies, University of Stirling
ISBN:1857691474
Geographic term:Malawi
Subjects:1999
matriarchy
women
popular music
literature
history
1900-1999
conference papers (form)
About persons:Jack Mapanje (1944-)ISNI
Felix MnthaliISNI
Abstract:The papers in this collection were initially prepared for a symposium on the history and culture of twentieth-century Malawi held under the auspices of Stirling University's Centre of Commonwealth Studies in December 1999. Three of the papers deal with aspects of the colonial history of Malawi: African women and the colonial army (Timothy J. Lovering), mission nurses (Agnes Rennick), and environmental degradation in the Northern Province and the conservationist ideas developed from the late 1880s by Scottish agents of the Livingstonia Mission (John McCracken). Four papers throw light on Malawian culture and society in more recent times: matrilineal inheritance and matrilocal residence in Chiradzulu District, Southern Malawi (Gillian Barber), the role of popular music in the public sphere (John Lwanda), the poetry of Jack Mapanje (Hester Ross), and Felix Mnthali's novel 'Yoranivyoto' (Fiona Johnson Chalamanda). [ASC Leiden abstract]
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