@prefix rdfs: . @prefix xsd: . @prefix schema: . @prefix void: . @prefix dcterms: . @prefix foaf: . @prefix frapo: . @prefix dre: . a foaf:Project ; rdfs:label "Ethics and Legitimacies in Modification of Moving Material Cultures in North Rift, Kenya" ; dcterms:title "Ethics and Legitimacies in Modification of Moving Material Cultures in North Rift, Kenya" ; dcterms:type ; dre:id "MOI_EthLegMo2022" ; dcterms:alternative "adl" ; dcterms:abstract "The study of the African material culture in museums and other cultural heritage institutions has largely\nconcentrated on documentation, preservation, exhibition and display (Pye, 2001; Ambrose & Paine 1992).\nKnowledge on material culture continue to be provided based on the techniques and materials used in their\nproduction, better ways to keep them from damage, as well as their exchange and what happens to them at\nthe “end” of their “usefulness” (Somjee, 1993; Appadurai, 1988; Kopytoff, 1982). Paine (2013) suggests a new\napproach to study of material culture by looking at significance of objects in creation and maintenance of\nsocial identities build on ethnicities and gender. Studies have shown that each society has a number of\nmaterial culture objects that stores information on ideas, values and conventions that are mutually shared\nand passed down from one generation to another. Through objects, people give meanings and values to\nthings so as to strengthen relationships and distinguish themselves from “others” (Bell & Geismar 2009). This\nis attested by the recent call of repatriation of significant objects taken from communities (Henare, 2005;\nPye, 2001; Bennett, 1995). Globally, culture changes and as it does it affects the technology, art, design and\ntechnique of making objects (Blier, 1998; McNaughton, 1988). Change in material culture objects is\ninfluenced by encounters with different people with new ideas, innovations and goods. On the other hand,\nthousands of traditional objects made from precious materials and high quality craftsmanship continue to\nbe preserved in time and space and also moved across societies. Such objects are iconic and are associated\nwith society’s values and beliefs. This study seeks to analyse (im) mobility of African material culture objects\nand knowledge embedded in them. The focus of the study will be Kenya’s North Rift Region, an area that\nborders Uganda, Sudan and Ethiopia." ; dcterms:isPartOf ; dcterms:creator ; foaf:member , , , , , , , , , ; frapo:isFundedBy ; dcterms:temporal "2022-06-01/2024-12-31" ; schema:isPartOf ; foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf . dcterms:modified "2026-06-09T05:11:09Z"^^xsd:dateTime . foaf:primaryTopic ; void:inDataset ; dcterms:modified "2026-06-09T05:11:09Z"^^xsd:dateTime ; dcterms:license .