1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910465864203321

Titolo

West African worlds : paths through socio-economic change, livelihoods and development / / edited by Reginald Cline-Cole and Elsbeth Robson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2014

ISBN

1-317-90493-1

1-315-84779-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (270 p.)

Collana

DARG regional development series ; ; number 6

Altri autori (Persone)

Cline-ColeR. A

RobsonElsbeth

Disciplina

966.105

Soggetti

Economic development - Social aspects - Africa, West

Electronic books.

Africa, West Economic conditions 1960-

Africa, West Social conditions 1960-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

At head of title: Developing Areas Research Group, the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers).

First published 2005 by Pearson Education.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Figures and tables; List of abbreviations; Contributors; Series Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Paths through socio-economic change, livelihoods and development in West African worlds; 2 Regional political economy: retrospect and prospect; 3 Portraying West Africa's children: moral panics, imagined geographies and globalisation; 4 Fictional worlds in struggles over West African (under-)development? Kolawole Omotoso's The Combat; 5 Urban bias, redistribution, and state collapse: the lessons of Sierra Leone

6 Expanding the frontiers of integration: regional economic and security dynamics7 Transformations in regional agriculture and family farming; 8 The social relations of economic life and networks of civic engagement: 'Social Capital' and targeted development; 9 Work, time and space: Britain and West Africa in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; 10 State-building, national integration, gender and economic



development in emergent regional democracies; 11 Development, planning, and agricultural knowledge on the Central Plateau of Burkina Faso; 12 Conclusion: West African futures?; Index

2.

Record Nr.

UNIORUON00070466

Titolo

Les langues chamito-semitiques / Textes reunis par David Cohen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

318 p. ; 30 cm + 2 c. geogr. all

ISBN

22-220-4057-4

Edizione

[1988]

Descrizione fisica

ISBN 2222040574

Disciplina

492

Soggetti

LINGUE CAMITOSEMITICHE - Studi

Lingua di pubblicazione

Francese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910960837503321

Autore

Ponsonby-Fane Richard Arthur Brabazon <1878-1937, >

Titolo

Studies in Shinto and shrines / / R.A.B. Ponsonby-Fane

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

1-136-89301-6

1-138-98322-5

1-315-03025-X

1-136-89294-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (666 p.)

Collana

Kegan Paul Japan library

Disciplina

299.5/61

Soggetti

Shinto

Shrines - Japan

Shrines

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published 2004 by Kegan Paul Ltd.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Preface; Table of  Contents; I. The Imperial Family and Shinto; Introduction; The Shinto Theogony; The Sanshu-no-Shinki or Three Sacred Regalia (1); The Saikū and Saiin, or Imperial Princess Priestess in the Service of the Great Ise Inner Shrine; Apotheosis or the Japanese Way of making Deities-the Editor; The Introduction of Buddhism; The Jingi-kwan, or Office in charge of all Matters pertaining to the Worship of the Shinto Deities; Court Festivals; Ryōbu-Shinto, or the Assimilation of Shintoism and Buddhism (1)

The Naishidokoro, or Place where the Imperial Ancestress, Amaterasu Omikami, being waited upon by a Class of Women Attendants called the Naishi who took charge of the Mirror representing the Divine Spirit of the Sun-GoddessAramitama, or the Rough (Active) Spirit, in contradistinction to the Nigimitama, or Peaceful (passive) Spirit, of Shinto Deities; Ryōbu Shinto (2); The Saiin, or the Imperial Princess Priestess serving in the Kamo Shrines of the Province of Yamashiro

The Saijo or Itsukime, the Priestess chosen from among the Fujiwara Daughters to serve Their Tutelary Deities (shrines) of Kasuga of Yamato and Oharano of YamashiroIwashimizu, a great Shinto Shrine erected on



the hill Otokoyama near Kyoto in 859 inviting the Deities of Usa Hachiman Shrine of Tsukushi (now Kyūshū); The Sanshu-no-Shinki (2); Divination, used at the Imperial Court whenever the Will of the Gods i.e. the Imperial Ancestors is in doubt; Imperial Visits to Shrines; II Three Great Emperors; The Emperor Tenji; The Emperor Go-Sanjō; The Emperor Go-Toba; III. Yatagarasu

Identification of YatagarasuKumano Saozan, or The Three Shrines in Kumano; Yatagarasu Ceremony; Ceremonies at other Kumano Shrines; IV. Yasoshima-No-Matsuri; Appendix, A Table giving the Dates of Despatch of Messengers and of Solemnisation of the Matsuri; V. Kwampei Taisha to Sono Gosaijin or the First Class Government Shrines and their Deities; VI. Kamo Gejō Ryōsha; The Foundation of the Shrines and the Deities Worshipped; The Origin and Purpose of the Aoi Matsuri; Kwansai, or the Official or Imperial Festival, and Kokusai, or Provincial Festival; Rinjisai, or occasional Festival

Imperial Visits etc.Buildings; Court Honours; Priests; Bad Times; Special Honour; Aoi Matsuri Procession and Various Ceremonies; VII. Ōyamato Jinja (Shrine); History of the Deities and the Institution of Their Worship; Rank, Status and Possessions; Go-Shintai; Sessha; Priests; Festivals; VIII. Tatsuta Jinja (Shrine); Foundation and the Deities Worshipped; Buildings; Rank and Status; Festivals; Priests; Bekkū, Sessba and Massha; IX. Nibukawakami Jinja (Shrine); X. Hiraoka Jinja (Shrine); XI. Suminoe-No-Ōkami; History of the Deities and the Institution of Their Worship; Buildings; Priests

Territorial Possessions

Sommario/riassunto

First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.