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| Title: | Twentieth century Malawi: perspectives on history and culture |
| Editors: | MacCracken, John Lovering, Timothy J. Chalamanda, Fiona Johnson |
| 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-) Felix Mnthali |
| 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] |