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UNINA9910451266703321 |
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Tsikata Dzodzi |
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Living in the shadow of the large dams [[electronic resource] ] : long term responses of downstream and lakeside communities of Ghana's Volta River Project / / by Dzodzi Tsikata |
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Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2006 |
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1-281-38431-3 |
9786611384319 |
90-474-0655-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (463 p.) |
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African social studies series, , 1568-1203 ; ; v. 11 |
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Electronic books. |
Volta River Valley (Ghana) Economic conditions |
Volta River Valley (Ghana) Social conditions |
Ghana Economic policy |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [417]-434) and index. |
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UNINA9910459614703321 |
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Vissing Yvonne Marie |
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Out of sight, out of mind : homeless children and families in small-town America / / Yvonne M. Vissing |
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Lexington, Kentucky : , : The University Press of Kentucky, , 1996 |
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©1996 |
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0-8131-6032-4 |
0-8131-0872-1 |
0-8131-4890-1 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (284 p.) |
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Homelessness - United States |
Homeless children - United States |
Homeless persons - United States |
Housing, Rural - United States |
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United States Rural conditions |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Introduction; 1 Identifying Homeless Children and Families in Rural Areas; 2 The Catastrophic Assault on the Family; 3 Homelessness: It's Enough to Make You Sick; 4 Homelessness: It's Enough to Drive You Crazy; 5 Kids Can't Think When They've Got No Place to Sleep; 6 Reaping What You Sow: Economic Crises in Rural Areas; 7 Lack of Affordable Housing in Rural America; 8 Getting the Rural Homeless the Help They Need; 9 A Framework for Understanding Rural Homelessness; 10 Bringing the Community Together to Solve Homelessness; 11 Doing What It Takes |
Appendix A: My Wild Gypsy Life Appendix B: Summary of Causes of Rural Child-Family Homelessness; Bibliography; Index; |
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""Homelessness in small towns and rural areas is on the rise. Drawing on interviews with and case studies of three hundred children and their families, with supporting statistics from federal, state, and private |
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agencies, Vissing illustrates the impact this social problem has upon education, health, and the economy."" |
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UNINA9910139018303321 |
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A companion to modern African Art / / edited by Gitti Salami and Monica Blackmun Visona |
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Chichester, West Sussex : , : Wiley Blackwell, , 2013 |
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1-118-51505-6 |
1-118-51507-2 |
1-118-51510-2 |
1-118-51506-4 |
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[First edition.] |
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1 online resource (650 p.) |
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Wiley Blackwell companions in art history ; ; 6 |
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SalamiGitti |
VisonaMonica Blackmun <1953-> |
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Art, African - 20th century |
Art, African - 19th century |
Art, African - 21st century |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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A Companion to Modern African Art; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgments; Part I Introduction; 1 Writing African Modernism into Art History; Narrations of Modernism and Modernity; Centering Narratives on Africa's Art Worlds; Chapter Overview; Lacunae and Disjunctures; Notes; References; Part II "Africa Has Always Been Modern"; 2 Local Transformations, Global Inspirations: The Visual Histories and Cultures of Mami Wata Arts in Africa; Sacred Waters: Ancient and Indigenous Arts for African Water Deities |
Afro-Mami Meets Euro-Mermaid: A Fifteenth-Century Sapi SynthesisThe Mermaid: A Floating Signifier; The Double-Tailed Mermaid in the Art of Benin; Mami Wata and the Image of the Snake |
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Charmer; The Snake Charmer as Mami Wata in Africa; Mami Wata and Hindu Gods and Goddesses; Communicating with Mami Wata: Writing, Reflecting, Calling; Troubled Waters: From Saint to Sinner; Notes; References; Part III Art in Cosmopolitan Africa: The Nineteenth Century; 3 Loango Coast Ivories and the Legacies of Afro-Portuguese Arts; Hybrids at Hello; Contact and Catastrophe; Afro-Portuguese Ivories |
The Loango Ivories"Authenticity": Drawing the Line; Pointed Imagery; More Animal Tales; Double-Take; Notes; References; 4 Roots and Routes of African Photographic Practices: From Modern to Vernacular Photography in West and Central Africa (1850-1980); "COME ONE! COME ALL! and secure the shadow ere it fades"; Toward a History of Photography in West and Central Africa; Pioneer Photographers and Their Customers along the West and Central African Coasts; From Monrovia to Libreville: The Careers of Several African Pioneer Photographers |
The Democratization of Photography: The Case of Fumban, CameroonNotes; References; 5 At Home in the World: Portrait Photography and Swahili Mercantile Aesthetics; "Modernity" in African Art History; Challenging "Modernity" and "Place" on the Swahili Coast; Photography and the Colonial Moment; A Swahili Culture of Things; Portrait Photographs as Objects; Modernity on the Edge; Notes; References; 6 African Reimaginations: Presence, Absence, and New Way Architecture; The Scenario for a New History of the Modern; The Palace and the Mosque; Lacuna and History; Removals and Reinstallations |
Invisibility and DifferenceLast Word: The Lines of a Future Argument; Notes; References; Part IV Modernities and Cross-Cultural Encounters in Arts of the Early Twentieth Century; 7 "One of the Best Tools for Learning": Rethinking the Role of 'Abduh's Fatwa in Egyptian Art History; Introduction; Art, Islam, and the Imam; An Insightful Traveler's Observations; "And They Do Not Spare Any Effort in Preserving These Things"; Al-Suwar wa-l-Tamathil: A Fatwa without Fine Arts; Between the Educational and the Legal; The Fatwa's Five Parts; Conclusion; Notes; References |
8 Congolese and Belgian Appropriations of the Colonial Era: The Commissioned Work of Tshelantende (Djilatendo) and Its Reception |
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Offering a wealth of perspectives on African modern and Modernist art from the mid-nineteenth century to the present, this new Companion features essays by African, European, and North American authors who assess the work of individual artists as well as exploring broader themes such as discoveries of new technologies and globalization. A pioneering continent-based assessment of modern art and modernity across AfricaIncludes original and previously unpublished fieldwork-based materialFeatures new and complex theoretical arguments about the nature of modernity an |
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