Mary Mbewe
Biographic Data
| ID | 4447690 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mary Mbewe |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mary |
| FAMILY NAME | Mbewe |
| SIGNATURE | MBEWE M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the Western Cape |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6702-7361 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Revisiting Colonial Legacies
In Zambia, museums have been predominantly viewed and even celebrated as institutions that preserve the nation's heritage for education and posterity. This conventional view of museums, which had long been inscribed in the National Museums Board of Zambia's mission, obscures the problematic colonial contexts and heritage on which most of the national museums in Zambia were founded. Both the Livingstone Museum, Southern Province, and the Moto Moto…
Making the Bemba-speaking People Ethnographic
This article examines the history of ethnological studies conducted by the missionaries of Africa ('White Fathers') in Northern Zambia, situating their work within the broader context of British colonial social anthropology. It explores the relationship between missionary ethnographic practices and the Rhodes-Livingstone Institute, a government anthropological institute established in 1938. The White Fathers' studies of African customs formed par…
Remembering a Polish refugee camp in Mbala, Zambia
The history of Polish refugee camps in Zambia during the Second World War remains an understudied subject, with limited scholarship on the fate of these settlements after the war. This article examines the former Polish refugee camp in Mbala, demonstrating that its history persists in local memory despite its abandonment (by 1950) and later transformation into residential plots (by the 1990s). Unlike other Polish refugee sites in Zambia that have…
Problematic Museum Heritage in a Postcolonial Context
Article Problematic Museum Heritage in a Postcolonial Context: The Case of the Moto Moto Museum Chisungu Collection was published on December 1, 2021 in the journal Zeitschrift für Kulturwissenschaften (volume 15, issue 2)
Remembering a Polish refugee camp in Mbala, Zambia
The history of Polish refugee camps in Zambia during the Second World War remains an understudied subject, with limited scholarship on the fate of these settlements after the war. This article examines the former Polish refugee camp in Mbala, demonstrating that its history persists in local memory despite its abandonment (by 1950) and later transformation into residential plots (by the 1990s). Unlike other Polish refugee sites in Zambia that have…
Problematic Museum Heritage in a Postcolonial Context
Article Problematic Museum Heritage in a Postcolonial Context: The Case of the Moto Moto Museum Chisungu Collection was published on December 1, 2021 in the journal Zeitschrift für Kulturwissenschaften (volume 15, issue 2)
Remembering a Polish refugee camp in Mbala, Zambia
The history of Polish refugee camps in Zambia during the Second World War remains an understudied subject, with limited scholarship on the fate of these settlements after the war. This article examines the former Polish refugee camp in Mbala, demonstrating that its history persists in local memory despite its abandonment (by 1950) and later transformation into residential plots (by the 1990s). Unlike other Polish refugee sites in Zambia that have…
Revisiting Colonial Legacies
In Zambia, museums have been predominantly viewed and even celebrated as institutions that preserve the nation's heritage for education and posterity. This conventional view of museums, which had long been inscribed in the National Museums Board of Zambia's mission, obscures the problematic colonial contexts and heritage on which most of the national museums in Zambia were founded. Both the Livingstone Museum, Southern Province, and the Moto Moto…
Making the Bemba-speaking People Ethnographic
This article examines the history of ethnological studies conducted by the missionaries of Africa ('White Fathers') in Northern Zambia, situating their work within the broader context of British colonial social anthropology. It explores the relationship between missionary ethnographic practices and the Rhodes-Livingstone Institute, a government anthropological institute established in 1938. The White Fathers' studies of African customs formed par…
Colonialism (2 works) · Indigenous (2 works) · Museums and Cultural Heritage (2 works) · African cultural and philosophical studies (1 work) · African history and culture studies (1 work) · African studies and sociopolitical issues (1 work) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (1 work) · Archaeology (1 work) · Art (1 work) · Colonial period (1 work)