Fast talking PI / / Selina Tusitala Marsh

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910787779103321
• Autore: Marsh Selina Tusitala
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Auckland, New Zealand : , : Auckland University Press, , 2009; ©2009
• ISBN: 1-77558-547-6; 1-77558-066-0; 1-86940-534-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (122 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): PageTim
• Disciplina: 821.92; 821/.92
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Accompanied by audio CD entitled: Fast talking PI / all poems written and performed by Selina Tusitala Marsh and music composed and performed by Tim Page.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Title Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Epigraph; TUSITALA; Googling Tusitala; Not Another Nafanua Poem; Afakasi; Calabash Breakers; Hone Said; Things on Thursdays; Song for Terry; Langston's Mother; Cardboard Crowns; The Sum of Mum; Wild Horses; Three to Four; Le Amataga; Spare the Rod; A Samoan Star-chant for Matariki; Circle of Stones; TALKBACK; Guys like Gauguin; Nails for Sex; Mutiny on Pitcairn; Two Nudes on a Tahitian Beach, 1894; Venus in Transit; Realpolitik; Contact 101; Has the whole tribe come out from England?; What's Sarong With This?; The Curator; Hawai'i: Prelude to a JourneyTouring Hawaii and Its People; Alice's Billboard; Fast Talking PIs; Fast Talkin' PI; Acronym; Outcast; Notes and Acknowledgements; About the Author; Copyright
• Sommario/riassunto: Fast Talking PI is the first ?singular, confident and musical' collection of poetry by Auckland writer Selina Tusitala Marsh. ?Tusitala' means writer of tales in Samoan, and Marsh here lives up to her name with stories of her life, her family, community, ancestry, and history. Her poetry is sensuous and strong, using lush imagery, clear rhythms and repetitions to power it forward. The list poem is a favourite style, but she also ; writes with a Pacific lyricism entirely her own. Fast Talking PI is structured in three sections, ?Tusitala (personal), ?Talkback' (political and historical) and

Aging in Sub-Saharan Africa : Recommendations for furthering research / / Panel on Policy Research and Data Needs to Meet the Challenge of Aging in Africa, Committee on Population, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Research Council of the National Academies; Barney Cohen and Jane Menken, editors

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910959615103321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Washington, DC, : National Academies Press, c2006
• ISBN: 9786610742462; 9780309180092; 0309180090; 9781280742460; 1280742461; 9780309663519; 0309663512
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: xii, 356 p. : ill
• Altri autori (Persone): CohenBarney <1959->; MenkenJane <1939->
• Disciplina: 613/.04380967
• Soggetti: Older people - Health and hygiene - Africa, Sub-Saharan; Older people - Africa, Sub-Saharan - Social conditions; Aging - Africa, Sub-Saharan; HIV infections - Africa, Sub-Saharan; AIDS (Disease) - Africa, Sub-Saharan
• 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.
• Nota di contenuto: FrontMatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Executive Summary -- Part I--Report -- 1 Aging in Sub-Saharan Africa: Recommendations for Furthering Research -- References -- Part II--Papers -- 2 Aging in ; Sub-Saharan Africa: The Changing Demography of the Region--Victoria A. Velkoff and Paul R. Kowal -- 3 Demographic Impacts of the HIV Epidemic and Consequences of Population-Wide Treatment of HIV for the Elderly: Results from Microsimulation--Samuel J. Clark -- 4 The HIV/AIDS Epidemic, Kin Relations, Living Arrangements, and the African Elderly in South Africa--M. Giovanna Merli and Alberto Palloni -- 5 Older Adults and the Health Transition in Agincourt, Rural South Africa: New Understanding, Growing Complexity--Kathleen Kahn, Stephen Tollman, Margaret Thorogood, Myles Connor, Michel Garenne, Mark Collinson, and Gillian Hundt -- 6 The Situation of Older People in Poor Urban Settings: The Case of Nairobi, Kenya--Alex C. Ezeh, Gloria Chepngeno, Abdhalah Ziraba Kasiira, and Zewdu Woubalem -- 7 Labor Force Withdrawal of the Elderly in South Africa--David Lam, Murray Leibbrandt, and Vimal Ranchhod -- 8 HIV/AIDS and Older People in South Africa--Victoria Hosegood and Ian M. Timaeus -- 9 Interactions Between Socioeconomic Status and Living Arrangements in Predicting Gender-Specific Health Status Among the Elderly in Cameroon--Barthélémy Kuate-Defo -- 10 Survey Measures of Health: How Well Do Self-Reported and Observed Indicators Measure Health and Predict Mortality?--Randall Kuhn, Omar Rahman, and Jane Menken -- Appendixes -- Appendix A Workshop Agenda -- Appendix B About the Contributors.
• Sommario/riassunto: In sub-Saharan Africa, older people make up a relatively small fraction of the total population and are supported primarily by family and other kinship networks. They have traditionally been viewed as repositories of information and wisdom, and are critical pillars of the community but as the HIV/AIDS pandemic destroys family systems, the elderly increasingly have to deal with the loss of their own support while absorbing the additional responsibilities of caring for their orphaned grandchildren. Aging in Sub-Saharan Africa explores ways to promote U.S. research interests and to augment the sub-Saharan governments' capacity to address the many challenges posed by population aging. Five major themes are explored in the book such as the need for a basic definition of "older person," the need for national governments to invest more in basic research and the coordination of data collection across countries, and the need for improved dialogue between local researchers and policy makers. This book makes three major recommendations: 1) the development of a research agenda 2) enhancing research opportunity and implementation and 3) the translation of research findings.