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15 - Jacques-Phillipe Potteau, North African and Hindoo Bombay, from Darwin’s collection of anthropological photographs
Jacques-Phillipe Potteau, North African and Hindoo Bombay, from Darwin’s collection of anthropological photographs, drawn from a set made at the Laboratoire d’Anthropologie,...
Collection: Endless Forms Audio Guide
Institution: Fitzwilliam Museum
Created: Tue 9 Jun 2009
Africa Research Forum Talk: Morten Jerven on African development statistics
Morten Jerven of Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, introduces his book 'Poor numbers: how we are misled by African development statistics and what to do about it'. This event...
Collection: Centre of African Studies
Institution: Centre of African Studies
Created: Mon 3 Jun 2013
Aidan Southall
Interview of Aidan Southall, in which he describes his life, work in Africa and America, and the influences upon him. Interview on 7th July 2005, lasting about one hour,...
Collection: Film Interviews with Leading Thinkers
Institution: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Created: Wed 13 Apr 2011
A matter of life and death: The struggle for Ugandan gay rights
David Cato, Advocacy/Litigation officer at Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG), in conversation with Dr Andy Tucker (Deputy Director, University of Cambridge Centre for Gender...
Collection: Centre of Governance and Human Rights
Institution: Department of Politics and International Studies
Created: Sat 27 Mar 2010
Ann Cotton OBE: The justice and imperative of girls' education in Africa
Ann Cotton OBE, Founder and Executive Director of Camfed International, delivers a public lecture at Madingley Hall on 5 March 2012.
The lecture is chaired by Dr Kate Pretty,...
Collection: Madingley Lectures
Institution: Institute of Continuing Education
Created: Wed 23 May 2012
ANTSIT presentation at HumCentre-CCE seminar (March 2011): Mobile Technologies for Education in the Developing World
This is the screen recording of a Prezi presentation made by Bjoern Hassler and Sara Hennessy of the Centre for Commonwealth Education (CCE), University of Cambridge, reporting...
Collection: Interactive teaching with digital open educational resources in sub-Saharan Africa
Institution: Faculty of Education
Created: Mon 18 Apr 2011
A Quiet Media Revolution? Mediatization, altered media geographies and insurgent citizen tactics
Thomas Tufte discusses how civic action and participation in social change in Tanzania is being effected by access to new, more interactive, civil society created media platforms.
Collection: Centre of Governance and Human Rights
Institution: Department of Politics and International Studies
Created: Mon 24 Oct 2011
Daniela Merolla : Multimedia research and documentation of African oral genres: reflections on partnership
This paper presents the project Multimedia Research and Documentation of African Oral Genres: Connecting Diasporas and Local Audiences that focuses on multimedia as a tool for...
Collection: World Oral Literature Project Workshop 2010
Institution: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Created: Wed 16 Feb 2011
Daniela Merolla: Verba Africana Series: Chikocha
Ngoma (a Swahili word which literally means ‘drum’) are happenings during which music, dance and song act together to realize performances related to the most important rites of...
Collection: World Oral Literature Project Collections
Institution: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Created: Wed 8 Jun 2011
Daniela Merolla: Verba Africana Series: Documenting Karamojong Oral Culture in Hamburg
Interview with Luisa Nativi. In this inteview Luisa Nativi performs and translates a number of songs and tales of the Karamojong (Uganda)
Collection: World Oral Literature Project Collections
Institution: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Created: Wed 8 Jun 2011
Daniela Merolla: Verba Africana Series: Épopée de Soundjata
Deux thèmes de l’épopée de Soundjata qui sont typiques pour la version de Kéla: l’histoire de la libération de Nagana Tiriba par l’ancêtre des Diabaté, et l’histoire de l’achat...
Collection: World Oral Literature Project Collections
Institution: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Created: Wed 8 Jun 2011
Daniela Merolla: Verba Africana Series: Headless Crabs
This aetiological narrative establishes the crab’s origin and its moral significance for the present. Narrated to children, it is a cautionary story that suggests identification —...
Collection: World Oral Literature Project Collections
Institution: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Created: Wed 8 Jun 2011
Daniela Merolla: Verba Africana Series: Hogbetsotso festival and migration stories
In this fragment Dr. Datey-Kumodzie recollects the historical migration of the Ewes and offers songs related to the festival. The organization of the Hogbetsotso festival is...
Collection: World Oral Literature Project Collections
Institution: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Created: Wed 8 Jun 2011
Daniela Merolla: Verba Africana Series: I rather die than marrying this man
In this inteview Luisa Nativi performs and translates a song about a woman complaning for marrying a man whom she did not want to marry (Karamojong, Uganda)
Collection: World Oral Literature Project Collections
Institution: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Created: Wed 8 Jun 2011
Daniela Merolla: Verba Africana Series: Jealous Twins
This tale treats competition within the family and, in particular, betrayal among brothers. It explores the contradiction inherent in peer-relationships within the family:...
Collection: World Oral Literature Project Collections
Institution: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Created: Wed 8 Jun 2011
Daniela Merolla: Verba Africana Series: Kijiti
The Swahili song Kijiti, whose text was composed by the famous taarab artist Siti binti Saad (1898-1950) to express her anger about the abuses committed against women that often...
Collection: World Oral Literature Project Collections
Institution: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Created: Wed 8 Jun 2011
Daniela Merolla: Verba Africana Series: Kunguiya and Kilua
Ngoma (a Swahili word which literally means ‘drum’) are happenings during which music, dance and song act together to realize performances related to the most important rites of...
Collection: World Oral Literature Project Collections
Institution: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Created: Wed 8 Jun 2011
Daniela Merolla: Verba Africana Series: Kyaso
Ngoma (a Swahili word which literally means ‘drum’) are happenings during which music, dance and song act together to realize performances related to the most important rites of...
Collection: World Oral Literature Project Collections
Institution: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Created: Wed 8 Jun 2011
Daniela Merolla: Verba Africana Series: Ndege we
Ngoma (a Swahili word which literally means ‘drum’) are happenings during which music, dance and song act together to realize performances related to the most important rites of...
Collection: World Oral Literature Project Collections
Institution: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Created: Wed 8 Jun 2011
Daniela Merolla: Verba Africana Series: Self presentation
At the beginning of the interview, the interviewee made it clear that he was a repository of a very special, secret knowledge that no other researcher could reveal and that he was...
Collection: World Oral Literature Project Collections
Institution: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Created: Wed 8 Jun 2011
