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SUMMARY:Dithipa: (re)collecting animals and their depictions from southern
  Africa's Missionary Road - Chris Wingfield (Sainsbury Research Unit for t
 he Arts of Africa\, Oceania and the Americas)
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CONTACT:Joanne Green
DESCRIPTION:The association of ethnography and natural history collections
  in the museum of the London Missionary Society during the early 19th cent
 ury has been interpreted as suggestive of a European vision 'of people who
  lived in unity with nature'. Through a focus on southern Africa\, this pa
 per asks whether these collections can also provide an insight into the wa
 ys in which animals were understood in the contexts from which they were c
 ollected. Can we read the predominance of large mammals from southern Afri
 ca as indicative of the significance of large mammals for precolonial sout
 hern African societies\, or are they simply indicative of European concern
 s? It will be suggested that a consideration of artefactual forms\, and in
  particular the carved ivory handled knives\, dithipa\, suggest a precolon
 ial cultural significance for wild animals that was significantly altered 
 by the ecological transformations associated with missionary and colonial 
 encounters.
LOCATION:Zoom
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