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Nsibambi, Fredrick. "Documenting and Presenting Contentious Narratives and Objects—Experiences from Museums in Uganda". Heritage 2, n. 1 (21 dicembre 2018): 27–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/heritage2010002.
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Uganda is currently witnessing a new era, in as far as the safeguarding of cultural heritage is concerned. The preservation and presentation of cultural heritage objects is no longer a preserve of the state. National and community museums, totaling about 25, and spread across the country, are now preserving and presenting important aspects of Uganda’s diverse and multi-layered history as well as cultural heritage. Former leaders and political personalities are rarely documented. Even when documented by non-museum workers, their narratives are insufficiently presented in museums. Certain aspects of Uganda’s cultural heritage and history are silently being contested through museum spaces. The silent contestations are generally influenced by ethnicity, politics, and religion. Through this article, I intend to present the predicament of documenting contested histories and cultural heritage by Ugandan museums and provide examples of museum objects or aspects of Uganda’s cultural heritage, such as the narrative of “Walumbe” (death), that are subject to contestations.
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Laely, Thomas. "Restitution and beyond in contemporary museum work: Re-imagining a paradigm of knowledge production and partnership". Contemporary Journal of African Studies 7, n. 1 (31 agosto 2020): 17–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/contjas.v7i1.2.
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Today, anthropological museums have to reach out to external stakeholders toreprocess and reappraise the history and acquisition of their collections. They aremuch more than mere interpreters of a past heritage, but institutions having a placein contemporary history to debate and shape ever-evolving cultures grounded inboth local and global concerns. The paper explores these questions using theexample of an ongoing trilateral museum partnership in knowledge generationbetween Uganda and Switzerland.
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Peterson, Derek R., Richard Vokes, Nelson Abiti e Edgar C. Taylor. "The Unseen Archive of Idi Amin: Making History in a Tight Corner". Comparative Studies in Society and History 63, n. 1 (gennaio 2021): 5–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0010417520000365.
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AbstractIn May 2019 we launched a special exhibition at the Uganda Museum in Kampala titled “The Unseen Archive of Idi Amin.” It consisted of 150 images made by government photographers in the 1970s. In this essay we explore how political history has been delimited in the Museum, and how these limitations shaped the exhibition we curated. From the time of its creation, the Museum's disparate and multifarious collections were exhibited as ethnographic specimens, stripped of historical context. Spatially and organizationally, “The Unseen Archive of Idi Amin” turned its back on the ethnographic architecture of the Uganda Museum. The transformation of these vivid, evocative, aesthetically appealing photographs into historical evidence of atrocity was intensely discomfiting. We have been obliged to organize the exhibition around categories that did not correspond with the logic of the photographic archive, with the architecture of the Museum, or with the experiences of the people who lived through the 1970s. The exhibition has made history, but not entirely in ways that we chose.
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Aselmeyer, Norman. "Ruin of Empire". Journal of Educational Media, Memory, and Society 14, n. 1 (1 marzo 2022): 14–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/jemms.2022.140102.
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This article is concerned with the memory of the Uganda Railway in Kenya. Built during the heyday of British imperialism at the end of the nineteenth century, the colonial railway has been a highly contested infrastructure. Drawing on museum exhibitions, public speeches, and publications, the article argues that the main narrative of the railway line as a tool of oppression began to change when the railway infrastructure gradually deteriorated in the mid-twentieth century. I show how three distinct groups (white expatriates, Kenyan-Asians, and Kenya’s political elite) were involved in creating a new public memory that popularized the Uganda Railway as a cornerstone of the postcolonial nation. Their uncoordinated but simultaneous efforts toward a new reading of the past all aimed, albeit for different reasons, at reimagining the nation. The article thus shows mechanisms of coming to terms with the colonial past in a postcolonial nation.
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Roth, Louis M. "Africalolampra ehrmanniNew Genus and Species, and the Male of Paraplecta Parva Princis (Blattaria: Blaberidae)". Psyche: A Journal of Entomology 102, n. 1-2 (1995): 89–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/1995/49658.
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A new cockroach genus and species,Africalolampra ehrmanni(Epilamprinae) from Kenya, and the previously unknown male ofParaplecta parvaShelford (Perisphaeriinae) from Uganda, are described.A new genus and species,Africalolampra ehrmanni, an ovoviviparous cockroach from Kenya, is described. It is related toCalolampraand several other genera, and is placed in the Epilamprinae. The previously unknown male of AfricanParaplecta parvaPrincis is described, and its female is redescribed. All of the specimens on which this paper is based are housed in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University (MCZ).
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Beron, Petar. "Type specimens of Acari (Arachnida) in the collections of the National Museum of Natural History, Sofia. I. Acariformes (Acaridida and Prostigmata)". Historia naturalis bulgarica 41, n. 1 (2 gennaio 2020): 1–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.48027/hnb.41.01001.
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The present list contains data on type material of 109 mite species (Acaridida and Prostigmata) from Bulgaria (species, described by I. Vassilev, M. Kolebinova, P. Beron) and many foreign countries: Greece, Suriname, the Netherlands, New Guinea, Cuba, Mexico, Chile, USA, Canada, Madagascar, Gaboon, Liberia, Nigeria, Uganda, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zambia, Morocco, Tunisia, Malaysia, Burma, Thailand, China, and the Philippines (species, described by M. Kolebinova, P. Beron, F. Lukoschus, A. Fain, C. Welbourn, F. Dusbabek, K. Samsinak, K. R. Orwig, W. Atyeo and other authors). The type material housed in the National Museum of Natural History, Sofia includes species from the families Acaridae, Glycyphagidae, Canestriniidae, Proctophyllodidae, Trouessartiidae, Syringobiidae, Dermationidae, Ereynetidae, Cytoditidae, Myocoptidae, Chirodiscidae, Gastronyssidae, Myobiidae, Ophioptidae, Demodicidae, Smarididae, Erythraeidae, Neotrombidiidae, Eutrombidiidae, Trombiculidae, Leeuwenhoekiidae, Walchiidae, and Vatacaridae. All Bulgarian and foreign acarologists are kindly invited to submit type specimens under their care in the collections of the National Museum of Natural History in Sofia. This material will be properly housed and well used.
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Darby, Michael. "Studies of Ptiliidae (Coleoptera) in the Spirit Collection of the Natural History Museum, London, 6: New species and records collected by W.C. Block in Kenya and Uganda, 1964–1965". Entomologist's Monthly Magazine 155, n. 4 (25 ottobre 2019): 239–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.31184/m00138908.1554.3999.
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This paper is based on a collection of Ptiliidae made by W.C. Block in Uganda and Kenya, 1964–1965, and donated to the Natural History Museum, London in 1978. A new genus Nelloptodes gen. n., and nine new species are described and figured: Bambara fragilis sp. n., Bambara lyrae sp. n., Nelloptodes blocki sp. n., Nelloptodes globulus sp. n., Nelloptodes gretae sp. n., Nelloptodes keitai sp. n., Ptinella katyae sp. n., Ptinella mpanga sp. n., Ptinella pygmaea sp. n., and new records and information provided for Pitilium pernix Darby, Bambara frosti Dybas, Bambara gabela Darby, Bambara magnifica Darby, Africoptilium marginatum Johnson, Fenestellidium kakamegaense Grebennikov, Acrotrichis africana Johnson, Acrotrichis alluaudi Johnson and Acrotrichis superba Johnson.
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Caspar, Kai R. "A review of Fukomys ochraceocinereus, an enigmatic mole-rat from Central Africa (Rodentia: Bathyergidae)". Lynx new series 53, n. 1 (2022): 79–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.37520/lynx.2022.006.
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Although the biology of common mole-rats of the genus Fukomys has been intensively studied over the last three decades, some lineages of this speciose group of subterranean rodents remain virtually unknown to science. One of these poorly studied species is the Central African mole-rat, Fukomys ochraceocinereus (von Heuglin, 1864), which occurs in the tropical savannahs and woodlands of the northern Democratic Republic of the Congo, South Sudan, Uganda, and the Central African Republic. Here I summarize the taxonomic history and available data on the distribution and morphology of this enigmatic mole-rat, adding selected observations from museum collections. F. ochraceocinereus is a comparatively large representative of its genus that appears to express little sexual dimorphism and notable variation in pelage color. Its genetics and karyology remain severely understudied. The review highlights both apparent peculiarities of the species as well as research gaps which should be addressed by future studies on F. ochraeocinereus and its relatives, including taxonomic revisions.
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Sterling, Keir B. "Early twentieth-century mammal collecting in Africa: The Smithsonian-Roosevelt East African Expedition of 1909–1910". Archives of Natural History 32, n. 1 (aprile 2005): 64–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/anh.2005.32.1.64.
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This paper deals with the scientific contributions made by Colonel Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) and the three mammalogists attached to the Smithsonian-Roosevelt East African Expedition of 1909–1910. These individuals included Lieutenant-Colonel (retired) Edgar Alexander Mearns (1856–1916), an old friend of Roosevelt's and a retired Army surgeon-naturalist; Edmund Heller (1875–1947), long-time field naturalist with previous experience in Africa, and J. Alden Loring (1871–1947), a veteran field collector in the United States. They joined Roosevelt and his son Kermit (1889–1943), in the senior Roosevelt's efforts to collect large game mammal specimens for the United States National Museum, Washington, DC. The group also observed and collected more than 160 species of carnivores, ungulates, rodents, insectivores, and bats. Departing New York shortly after Roosevelt's tenure as President of the United States ended in March 1909, the party debarked at Mombasa in April, and spent most of the next year in Kenya and Uganda. They also visited Sudan before the expedition ended at Khartoum in March 1910. Other subjects discussed include the expedition's objectives and fi nancing, the information gathered by expedition members and the publications which resulted.
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Sterling, Keir B. "Early twentieth-century mammal collecting in Africa: The Smithsonian-Roosevelt East African Expedition of 1909–1910". Archives of Natural History 32, n. 1 (aprile 2005): 70–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/anh.2005.32.1.70.
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This paper deals with the scientific contributions made by Colonel Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) and the three mammalogists attached to the Smithsonian–Roosevelt East African Expedition of 1909–1910. These individuals included Lieutenant-Colonel (retired) Edgar Alexander Mearns (1856–1916), an old friend of Roosevelt's and a retired Army surgeon-naturalist; Edmund Heller (1875–1947), long-time field naturalist with previous experience in Africa, and J. Alden Loring (1871–1947), a veteran field collector in the United States. They joined Roosevelt and his son Kermit (1889–1943), in the senior Roosevelt's efforts to collect large game mammal specimens for the United States National Museum, Washington, DC. The group also observed and collected more than 160 species of carnivores, ungulates, rodents, insectivores, and bats. Departing New York shortly after Roosevelt's tenure as President of the United States ended in March 1909, the party debarked at Mombasa in April, and spent most of the next year in Kenya and Uganda. They also visited Sudan before the expedition ended at Khartoum in March 1910. Other subjects discussed include the expedition's objectives and financing, the information gathered by expedition members and the publications which resulted.
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Michaud, Maud. "The Missionary and the Anthropologist: The Intellectual Friendship and Scientific Collaboration of the Reverend John Roscoe (CMS) and James G. Frazer, 1896–1932". Studies in World Christianity 22, n. 1 (aprile 2016): 57–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/swc.2016.0137.
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A rapidly expanding field, the study of the interactions between missions and sciences, and most notably missions and anthropology, has opened up new ways of examining the scholarly work of missionaries and their extra-apostolic activities. Historians of missions are drawn to archival materials that had been previously overlooked, such as the contributions of missionaries to scientific journals, or their correspondence with figures that worked outside of missionary circles. This article focuses on one such correspondence between the social anthropologist James George Frazer and the Revd John Roscoe, who worked for the Church Missionary Society in Uganda between 1889 and 1911. Not only was Roscoe a mine of information on Central African tribes for Frazer, he was also, after he retired from the CMS, a keen student of anthropology who devoted the second part of his life to anthropological ventures: he wrote the first ethnological account on the Baganda, contributed to enriching the Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology's collections of Central African relics and artefacts, helped set up training courses in anthropology for prospective missionaries and led an anthropological expedition. His work, and his long correspondence with Frazer, bears the mark of the renowned anthropologist's theories on totemism, a notion that was at the core of the international anthropological scene in the late-Victorian and Edwardian period.
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Parke, Andrew. "Surgeon Major Thomas Heazle Parke (1857–1893): Irish doctor, soldier and explorer". Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps 164, n. 1 (8 agosto 2017): 61–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/jramc-2017-000781.
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Surgeon Major Thomas Heazle Parke (1857–1893) was a doctor from Drumsna, County Roscommon, who after completing his education at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland joined the British army as a medical officer. After several years of serving in Ireland and Egypt, he volunteered to be medical officer of the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition of 1887–1889. This was to become Henry Morton Stanley’s largest, longest and most controversial African expedition. The epic journey saw Stanley, his eight European officers and 800 African porters take almost 3 years to cross the African continent from West to East via the Congo River, Southern Sudan and Uganda. During this time, Parke had to single-handedly deal with the myriad diseases and injuries that beset the expedition’s members. Barely 200 of the Zanzibari, Sudanese and Somali porters survived, and two British officers also perished. In completing the expedition, Parke became the first Irishman to cross Africa, and he had also become the first European to lay eyes on the ‘Mountains of the Moon’ or ‘Ruwenzori’. He returned home to great acclaim, and was bestowed copious honours and fellowships. His account of the expedition, My Experiences in Equatorial Africa, was a bestseller. However, his own health never recovered from the hardships of his time in Africa, and he died suddenly in 1893. His statue stands outside the Natural History Museum in Dublin.
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Grant, Claude H. B., e Willoughby P. Lowe. "On a Collection of Birds from British East Africa and Uganda, presented to the British Museum by Capt. G. S. Cozens.- Part I. Struthioniformes-Pelecaniformes". Ibis 57, n. 1 (28 giugno 2008): 1–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1474-919x.1915.tb08178.x.
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H. B. Grant, Claude, e Willoughby P. Lowe. "On a Collection of Birds from British East Africa and Uganda, presented to the British Museum by Capt. G. P. Cosens.-Part II. Accipitriformes-Cypseli". Ibis 57, n. 2 (28 giugno 2008): 235–316. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1474-919x.1915.tb08191.x.
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THOMAS, OLDFIELD, e HAROLD SCHWANN. "On Mammals collected during the Uganda Boundary Commission by the late Mr. W. G. Doggett and presented to the British Museum by Col. C. Delmé-Radcliffe*". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 74, n. 2 (7 luglio 2010): 459–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-7998.1904.tb08303.x.
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Bennett, Alison. "Diplomatic Gifts: Rethinking Colonial Politics in Uganda through Objects". History in Africa 45 (19 aprile 2018): 193–220. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/hia.2018.5.
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Abstract:This article examines the material underpinnings of the political diplomacy pursued by Ugandan leaders towards European colonial figures in the late nineteenth century. Imperial historians have traditionally understood the institutional processes of treaty-making, diplomacy and state administration as part of the workings of the European “Official Mind.” As such, analyses have been overwhelmingly based upon written colonial sources such as governmental papers. This article provides an alternative perspective on institutional life in Uganda by demonstrating that material objects also served as sites of political praxis for both the governed and those governing when exchanged in the form of a gift. The products of these exchanges can be found in museums across Uganda, Kenya, and Britain. Their biographies shed important new light on the interactions between the material and political worlds as well as between local leaders and the imperial state, yet they have received little critical attention from historians. This article seeks to reinstate their role into the political process, and in doing so, reconfigures our understanding of these different imperial institutions.
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Southgate, V. R., D. Rollinson, L. A. Tchuem Tchuenté e P. Hagan. "Towards control of schistosomiasis in sub-Saharan Africa". Journal of Helminthology 79, n. 3 (settembre 2005): 181–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1079/joh2005307.
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AbstractApproximately 80% of the 200 million people infected with schistosomiasis inhabit sub-Saharan Africa, and the annual mortality is estimated to be 280,000. Praziquantel is the drug of choice in the treatment of schistosomiasis and pregnant women may now be treated. It was agreed at the World Health Assembly in 2001 that at least 75% of school-aged children in high burden areas should be treated for schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminth infections by 2010 to reduce morbidity. A grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to the Schistosomiasis Control Initiative, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London has enabled control programmes to be initiated in Uganda, Tanzania, Zambia, Burkina Faso, Niger and Mali. Additional programmes have recently commenced in Zanzibar with a grant from the Health Foundation to The Natural History Museum, London and in Cameroon. Combination treatment for schistosomiasis, gastrointestinal helminths and filariasis reduces costs of control programmes. The EC Concerted Action Group on ‘Praziquantel: its central role in the chemotherapy of schistosome infection’ met in Yaoundé Cameroon in 2004 to discuss recent developments in laboratory and field studies. The use of standard operating procedures will enable data on drug action on schistosomes produced in different laboratories to be compared. With the ever increasing use of praziquantel there is a possibility of the development of resistance by schistosomes to the drug, hence the necessity to explore the activities of other compounds. Artemether, unlike praziquantel, is effective against immature schistosomes. The effectiveness of mirazid, an extract of myrrh, is controversial as data from different laboratories are equivocal. It is suggested that an independent body such as the World Health Organization should determine whether mirazid should be used in the treatment of schistosomiasis.
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Candia, Douglas Andabati, James Mukoki, Claire Ashaba, Peter Jegrace Jehopio e Brenda Kyasiimire. "The Significance of Private Tutoring in Improving English Language Literacy: A Structural Equation Modelling Approach". Multidisciplinary Journal for Education, Social and Technological Sciences 5, n. 2 (4 ottobre 2018): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/muse.2018.9872.
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<p><span>Low quality of primary education demonstrated by low academic achievement has persisted as a challenge to Uganda’s education sector. Although the country has progressed in improving other education indicators, this hasn’t translated into better schooling outcomes. Therefore, this study sought to determine the significance of private tutoring on English literacy levels. The study utilized secondary data from the Uwezo Uganda National Learning Assessment 2014 survey and generalized structural equation modelling to determine significant predictors. The variables that had a direct effect included private tutoring, child’s age and gender, pre-school attendance, school type, household size, household head gender and education level. The variables that had an indirect effect through private tutoring were region of residence, school type and household head education level. The study observed a need for the government through the Ministry of Education to come up with a regulatory framework to manage and control the practice of conducting private.</span></p>
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Budi, Nashon Budy, John Akumu Orondo, Samwel Okuro e George Odhiambo. "The Decline of Lake Victoria Ferry Services in Kenya, 1961-2012". Journal of Historical Studies 4, n. 1 (1 settembre 2023): 43–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.47941/jhs.1422.
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Purpose: This study examined the operations of Lake Victoria Ferry Services since the independence of the East African countries in 1961 when the management was under the East Africa Railways and Harbors (EARH) and later the Kenya Railways Corporation (KRC). At the beginning of the 20th century the British colonial government established Lake Victoria transport as an extension of railway line in the lake region in Kenya and into Uganda. Despite some challenges, lake transport demonstrated progress in its services and expansion during the colonial period. However, when the management was transferred to the independent governments of East Africa, the operations of ferries were affected by the inefficiencies which marked the beginning of its decline. This study was guided by Politics of the Belly Theory of Bayart who associates underdevelopment of Africa long after independence with corrupt practices of African leaders. The theory shows that postcolonial African leaders have personalized the state for their own and their ethnic community’s gain thereby neglecting the regions which are perceived to be opposing the ruling regime.
Methodology: A Historical Research Design was used to conduct this study. Non probability sampling methods and procedures were used to identify informants during the collection of primary data. Other primary data were gathered from Kenya National Archives and Railways Museum in Nairobi. Secondary data was collected from relevant publications and other materials.
Findings: The data obtained were analyzed using content and thematic analysis techniques. This study established that transition in management from colonial to independent East African governments, competition from road transport and disintegration of East African Community led to the decline of maritime transportation on Lake Victoria. In order to revive ferry services on the Lake, major rehabilitations on the existing ports must be done and modern ports built. In the same vein new transport vessels should be acquired. Finally, a permanent solution to the threat of water hyacinth must be pursued and regular dredging of navigational channels done regularly.
Unique Contribution to Theory, Policy and Practice: This study suggests that, the government should promote integrated transport planning as well as developing proper regulations guiding Lake Victoria transport.
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Delany, M. J. "Mammal studies in Uganda 1878–1980". Archives of Natural History 39, n. 1 (aprile 2012): 27–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/anh.2012.0060.
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In the century since Emin Pasha's observations in 1878, the study of mammals in Uganda has gone through three distinct phases. Up to the First World War the main studies were through expeditions and collectors and the material they brought back to museums in Britain and America. Their work was supplemented by significant contributions from a small number of dedicated residents. The second phase, broadly between the two world wars, was largely dependent on field studies by local residents who continued to send material overseas. The last phase, following the Second World War, witnessed an enormous expansion in mammal studies. These were made possible through easier access to the country, improved facilities in Uganda, the need to develop management techniques for the large mammals and a greater desire to understand tropical faunas. Unfortunately, by the mid-1970s, due to social and economic pressures, these studies had to be greatly curtailed.
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Ssenyonga, Fredrick Nsibambi. "The Emerging Role of Community Museums in Uganda: The Need for Capacity Building Among Managers". Museum International 68, n. 1-2 (gennaio 2016): 125–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/muse.12096.
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Magara, Elisam. "The “library, archives and museum” trinity: a professional challenge with particular reference to the knowledge society and to Uganda". Innovation 31, n. 1 (26 gennaio 2009). http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/innovation.v31i1.26509.
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Lvova, Eleonora. "First Reports on Eastern Africa at the Moscow University". Journal of the Institute for African Studies, 20 marzo 2018, 65–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.31132/2412-5717-2018-42-1-65-78.
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The article is devoted to the first direct links between the Moscow University and East Africa. At the beginning of the 20th century, three of its employees (I. Puzanov, V.V. Troitsky and V.N. Nikitin) visited the east and the northeast of the African continent (the territory of the modern Republic of Sudan, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda). They explored the nature and society of that time, collected zoological and ethnographic collections (part of those is stored in the Museum of Anthropology of the Moscow State University). Their notesfor a long time have been neglected by scholars specializing on African studies , although they were published in the first decade of the 20th century. Those works make it possible to study the situation in the region at thet time, the geography of the settlements and the peculiarities of the life of local peoples, the specifics of the policy of European powers and their rivalry, the beginning of the formation of foreign communities that later became important actors in the economy and politics of East Africa.
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Laely, Thomas, Marc Meyer, Amon Mugume e Raphael Schwere. "Towards Mutuality in International Museum Cooperation: Reflections on a Swiss-Ugandan Cooperative Museum Project". Stedelijk Studies Journal 1 (2019). http://dx.doi.org/10.54533/stedstud.vol008.art09.
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Thinking about a “museum of mutuality” affords the question of who the actors are and, accordingly, between whom mutuality is a characteristic of their relationship, ideally or practically. The call for papers for this special issue invited contributors to examine how museums and audiences are intertwined in mutuality. Over the last few decades, expectations directed to this relationship have tended to point towards its “democratization”[1] and inclusiveness, towards opening the institution as a forum for sociocultural exchange and debate, towards plurivocality concerning representation, and towards greater accessibility to and renegotiation of the ownership of its collections.[2] It is anticipated, and according to the current trends in museology rightly so, that museums are transforming from being inward-looking institutions that communicate unilaterally from an authoritarian and custodian position, to becoming outward-looking organizations that insert themselves permeably into society. Mutuality is commonly understood as a moral value or a principle of seeking reciprocally referential “mutually positive relations.”[3] The present article focuses on the analysis of mutuality in the relations between museums themselves, not between museums and other external stakeholders, such as representatives of communities of the provenance of collections or museum audiences. Specifically, we examine if and how this quality manifests itself in a trilateral cooperative research and curatorial arrangement between one Swiss and two Ugandan museums. Thereby we depart from the assumption that, firstly, the abovementioned transformation of museums has also formed the manner of interaction of African with European museums and, secondly, we are convinced that it is high time for an empiric analysis of transnational museum cooperation practices.
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Haagner, G. V. "Gluttony Causes Death in Juvenile Puff Adder Bitis arietans". Koedoe 31, n. 1 (24 ottobre 1988). http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/koedoe.v31i1.497.
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Little is known about the predator/prey relationship in reptiles. The puff adder Bitis arietans is known to feed on a variety of food items, their diet consisting mainly of rodents, while birds, lizards and toads may be included (Broadley 1983, FitzSimons' Snakes of Southern Africa, Johannesburg: Delta Books). Pitman (1974, The Snakes of Uganda, Glasgow: Wheldon and Wesley) recorded larger prey for puff adders in East Africa, while Robertson, Chapman & Chapman (1965, Puku 3: 149-170) reported on the diet of puff adders in Tanzania and Zambia, respectively. A gravid puff adder was collected in the Manyeleti Game Reserve in the Mhala district (24@38'S, 31@28'E) of Gazankulu. On 12 February 1986 she gave birth to 28 young. The average length of the fry was 219,12 mm (S.D. 9,72 mm) and their average mass 15, 72 g (S.D. 0,67 g). The young were separated from the mother and placed in another cage. The first ecdysis was com- pleted within 24 hours. After 10 days some newly weaned mice were placed in the cage. On subsequent inspection, it was found that a young snake gorged itself to death. The young puff adder contained three young mice with a total mass of 13,8 g, while the post-mortem mass of the snake was 14,2 g. Having swallowed 97,2 of its own body weight, the snake evidently died of suffocation. The specimen was preserved and is now part of the Transvaal Museum collection in Pretoria (TM 64088).
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Massa, Renato. "PAOLO MANTEGAZZA E GLI UCCELLI DEL CIELO". Istituto Lombardo - Accademia di Scienze e Lettere - Incontri di Studio, 18 luglio 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/incontri.2018.361.
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The earliest interest of Paolo Mantegazza in bird biology was expressed as an attention to the world of ornamental bird breeders. Later on, Mantegazza was so deeply fascinated by Riccardo Stradi’s research on bird feather’s pigments to sponsor a magnificent University annual book just dedicated to this theme. At the same time he became very much interested and openly supported the establishment of a new ornithological station at Albonico, a supporting institution that readily produced several degree theses in biological and /or natural sciences and, in addition, several research papers on special ecological themes regarding . the life history of song birds. The success of the above cited station also suggested to try to save the old Milan zoo by establishing a zoo research station on the model of the corresponding institutions of the Milan aquarium and natural history museum. The project was discussed in comparison with the Jersey Wildlife Preservation Trust, and, as such, was strongly supported by Mantegazza, but due to a political change of the Miano city hall administration, it was suddenly rejected while the whole work done up to that point was completely lost. The unfortunate story of the Milan zoo was shortly followed by a much luckier one, regarding the study of the parrot language. With the moral and material help of Mantegazza, a number of African parrots were even hosted in an especially built glass structure within the domain of the Department of Pharmacology. In addition, they were also studied on the field in a series of short expeditions to Tanzania and Uganda. The results of these activities were summarized in a numbers of papers and books. A special memory is also worth about the world list of the Italian bird names, a project that was started almost as a semantic joke and was subsequently so much developed to suggest to ask to our Rector (and readily obtain) a University contribution for its publication. The resulting bird name list was even worth a Crusca Academy praise and was extensively adopted since its publication in the popular ornithological literature in the Italian language. The first paper print, delivered in 1993, was followed by a second paper print in the year 2000 and, more recently, by an electronic version enriched by introductory texts to orders and families as well as by several pictures by a number of photographers. In summary, Paolo Mantegazza was deeply interested in bird biology and encouraged/sponsored a number of researches and cultural events on this topic within the University of Milano.