Museums In Africa Research Articles

The Hymenoptera (Chalcidoidea, Ichneumonoidea, Platygastroidea) described by Vittorio Delucchi: an annotated catalogue

The present catalogue lists 144 species and one subspecies described by Delucchi (134), Delucchi et al. (eight), Ferrière in Delucchi (two), and Ferrière and Delucchi (one). Name-bearing types are deposited in the entomological collections at the Lund University (three), the Natural History Museums of Budapest (three), Geneva (nine), London (four), Oxford (one), Paris (three), and Vienna (35), the Royal Africa Museum, Tervuren (26), and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich (60). The actual depository of the name-bearing types of one species and the subspecies (Scelionidae) is unknown. Lectotypes of 15 species are here designated. Twenty new synonyms are established, Eulophidae: Entedon erdoesi Delucchi= E. metatarsalis Thomson. Pteromalidae: Gitognathus gibberosus Delucchi and Lamprotatus kerrichi Delucchi= Sphaeripalpus viridis Förster; Glyphognathus umbelliferae Graham= G. convexus (Delucchi); Kentema viride Delucchi= Merismus megapterus Walker; Lamprotatus cupreus Delucchi, L. ornatus Delucchi, and L. rusticus Delucchi= L. splendens Westwood; Lamprotatus flavus Delucchi= L. crassipes Thomson; Lamprotatus montanus Delucchi= L. picinervis Thomson; Miscogaster fulgens Delucchi= M. rufipes Walker; Miscogaster lucens Delucchi= M. hortensis Walker; Seladerma agreste Delucchi= S. convexum Walker; Seladerma luteolum Delucchi= S. bicolor Walker; Seladerma nobile Delucchi and S. violaceum Delucchi= S. laetum Walker; Skeloceras cerebrosum Delucchi= Lamprotatus truncatus (Fonscolombe); Skeloceras glaucum Delucchi= Lamprotatus novickyi (Delucchi); Stictomischus lamprosomus Graham= S. nitentis Delucchi; Telepsogos helveticus Delucchi= Seladerma nigrum (Delucchi). Twelve new combinations are proposed, Eulophidae: Achrysocharoides parva (Delucchi) (from Enaysma); Aprostocetus hanangensis (Delucchi), A. longiscutulum (Delucchi), A. scutellaris (Delucchi), Neotrichoporoides crassianulus (Delucchi), N. microstigma (Delucchi), and Pracetus stramenticius (Delucchi) (all from Tetrastichus); Notanisomorphella bicolor (Delucchi) (from Sunha); Platyplectrus meruensis (Delucchi) (from Euplectromorpha). Pteromalidae: Glyphognathus convexus (Delucchi) (from Stictomischus) and G. nitidus (Delucchi) (from Sphaeripalpus); Theocolax oblonga (Delucchi) (from Cerocephala). The paper provides taxonomic notes on several species, references to published figures of and detailed information on type specimens. Parts of them, mostly antennae and wings, were mounted on slides by Delucchi and were contained in a hitherto unknown slide collection. These slides are individually associated with the respective specimens.

Museums in Africa: Rhetoric versus Reality

Museums in Africa: Rhetoric versus Reality

African Museums: The Challenge of Change

UNESCO’s efforts to foster the development and improvement of museums in Africa have followed an uneven path, reflecting the unprecedented changes that have marked every aspect of African life over the past fifty years. The result is that today many Africans are calling into question the very notion of the museum itself, posing a challenge to received ideas that could have profound implications for museums the world over. For this reason we asked Emmanuel Nnakenyi Arinze, chairman of the West African Museums Programme (WAMP) to take stock of the situation and share his views on future directions. He has worked in Nigerian museums for twenty years and was the federal director of Museums and Monuments until 1991. In addition to his work at WAMP, he is also the director of the Heritage Consultancy Bureau and president of the Commonwealth Association of Museums. A member of ICOM and several other professional museum organizations, he is a consultant to ICCROM‐PREMA in Africa. He has published articles in various international museum journals and co‐authored the book, Museums and their Communities in West Africa, while another publication, Museums and History, is currently in press.

Thefts from museums in Africa

Thefts from museums in Africa

PREMA: a conservation strategy for African collections

This paper describes the role of the PREMA (Prevention in Museums in Africa) project in training and support for preventive conservation of sub-Saharan African collections. The special approach to teaching formulated for PREMA is introduced from the point of view of the museum environment, and teaching methods dealing with the care and treatment of objects are detailed. The achievements of the programme since its inception, and some of its failures, are discussed. Finally, the chief philosophical questions of the project are introduced: how the teaching should be done, and what subject matter should be taught which can comply with conservation ethics and with the paucity of locally available and sustainable resources and methods.

Frontiers of Utopia: Past and Present

Previous articleNext article No AccessFrontiers of Utopia: Past and PresentLouis MarinLouis Marin Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Critical Inquiry Volume 19, Number 3Spring, 1993 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/448680 Views: 49Total views on this site Citations: 40Citations are reported from Crossref Copyright 1993 The University of ChicagoPDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article:Akira Suwa Heterotopic Potential of Darkness: Exploration and Experimentation of Queer Space in Sarah Waters’s Neo-Victorian Trilogy, Humanities 11, no.11 (Dec 2021): 5.https://doi.org/10.3390/h11010005Christopher G. 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Directory of museums in Africa

Directory of museums in Africa

Towards a new type of ‘ethnographic’ museum in Africa

(1983). Towards a new type of ‘ethnographic’ museum in Africa. Museum International: Vol. 35, No. 3, pp. 146-151.