1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910451266703321

Autore

Tsikata Dzodzi

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2006

ISBN

1-281-38431-3

9786611384319

90-474-0655-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (463 p.)

Collana

African social studies series, , 1568-1203 ; ; v. 11

Disciplina

330.9667

Soggetti

Electronic books.

Volta River Valley (Ghana) Economic conditions

Volta River Valley (Ghana) Social conditions

Ghana Economic policy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [417]-434) and index.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910459614703321

Autore

Vissing Yvonne Marie

Titolo

Out of sight, out of mind : homeless children and families in small-town America / / Yvonne M. Vissing

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lexington, Kentucky : , : The University Press of Kentucky, , 1996

©1996

ISBN

0-8131-6032-4

0-8131-0872-1

0-8131-4890-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (284 p.)

Disciplina

362.50973

Soggetti

Homelessness - United States

Homeless children - United States

Homeless persons - United States

Housing, Rural - United States

Electronic books.

United States Rural conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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;

Sommario/riassunto

""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



agencies, Vissing illustrates the impact this social problem has upon education, health, and the economy.""

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910139018303321

Titolo

A companion to modern African Art / / edited by Gitti Salami and Monica Blackmun Visona

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chichester, West Sussex : , : Wiley Blackwell, , 2013

ISBN

1-118-51505-6

1-118-51507-2

1-118-51510-2

1-118-51506-4

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (650 p.)

Collana

Wiley Blackwell companions in art history ; ; 6

Classificazione

702.4

709.6

Altri autori (Persone)

SalamiGitti

VisonaMonica Blackmun <1953->

Disciplina

704.03

704.0396073

Soggetti

Art, African - 20th century

Art, African - 19th century

Art, African - 21st century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes bibliographical references and index

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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



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

Sommario/riassunto

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