LEADER 01421nam0-22004091i-450- 001 990005549710203316 005 20080812120000.0 035 $a000554971 035 $aUSA01000554971 035 $a(ALEPH)000554971USA01 035 $a000554971 100 $a20080331d2008-------|0enac50------ba 101 $aeng 102 $aGB 105 $a|||| ||||| 200 1 $aBank performance$ea theoretical and empirical framework for the analysis of profitability, competition and efficiency$fJacob Bikker and Jaap W. B. Bos. - London$gNew York : Routledge, 2008 210 $axviii$d154 p. ; 24 cm. 225 2$aRoutledge international studies in money and banking$v84 410 1$12001$aRoutledge international studies in money and banking$v84 606 $aBanche e attività bancarie$2FI 620 $dLondon 676 $a332.1$cBanche e servizi bancari$v21 700 1$aBIKKER,$bJacob A.$0593225 701 1$aBOS,$bJaap W. B.$0614500 712 $aRoutledge 801 $aIT$bSOL$c20120104 912 $a990005549710203316 950 $aDIP.TO SCIENZE ECONOMICHE - (SA)$dDS 300 332.1 BIK$e14455 DISES 951 $aDIP.TO SCIENZE ECONOMICHE - (SA)$bDS2008 1E 20080331 951 $a300 332.1 BIK$b14455 DISES 959 $aBK 969 $aDISES 979 $c20121027$lUSA01$h1533 979 $c20121027$lUSA01$h1613 996 $aBank performance$91131295 997 $aUNISA NUM $aUSA17634 LEADER 04516nam 2200793 a 450 001 9910788578903321 005 20211004234433.0 010 $a1-283-89033-X 010 $a0-8122-0373-9 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812203738 035 $a(CKB)3240000000064680 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10641596 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000606186 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11379740 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000606186 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10582022 035 $a(PQKB)11290634 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000810395 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12358850 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000810395 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10833564 035 $a(PQKB)11791273 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse8264 035 $a(DE-B1597)449201 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812203738 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3441761 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10641596 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL420283 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3441761 035 $a(OCoLC)794925488 035 $a(EXLCZ)993240000000064680 100 $a20100715d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAlong an African border$b[electronic resource] $eAngolan refugees and their divination baskets /$fSo?nia Silva 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$dc2011 215 $a1 online resource (186 p.) 225 0 $aContemporary Ethnography 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a0-8122-4293-9 311 0 $a0-8122-2268-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [151]-163) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIntroduction --$t1. Birth --$t2. Initiation --$t3. Adulthood --$tConclusion. A Way of Living --$tNotes --$tGlossary --$tWorks Cited --$tIndex --$tAcknowledgments 330 $aThe divination baskets of south Central Africa are woven for a specific purpose. The baskets, known as lipele, contain sixty or so small articles, from seeds, claws, and minuscule horns to wooden carvings. Each article has its own name and symbolic meaning, and collectively they are known as jipelo. For the Luvale and related peoples, the lipele is more than a container of souvenirs; it is a tool, a source of crucial information from the ancestral past and advice for the future. In Along an African Border, anthropologist Sónia Silva examines how Angolan refugees living in Zambia use these divination baskets to cope with daily life in a new land. Silva documents the special processes involved in weaving the baskets and transforming them into oracles. She speaks with diviners who make their living interpreting lipele messages and speaks also with their knowledge-seeking clients. To the Luvale, these baskets are capable of thinking, hearing, judging, and responding. They communicate by means of jipelo articles drawn in configurations, interact with persons and other objects, punish wrongdoers, assist people in need, and, much like humans, go through a life course that is marked with an initiation ceremony and a special burial. The lipele functions in a state between object and person. Notably absent from lipele divination is any discussion or representation in the form of symbolic objects of the violence in Angola or the Luvale's relocation struggles-instead, the consultation focuses on age-old personal issues of illness, reproduction, and death. As Silva demonstrates in this sophisticated and richly illustrated ethnography, lipele help people maintain their links to kin and tradition in a world of transience and uncertainty. 410 0$aContemporary ethnography. 606 $aLuvale (African people)$zZambia$zChavuma District$xRites and ceremonies 606 $aDivination$zZambia$zChavuma District 606 $aBaskets$zZambia$zChavuma District$xReligious aspects 606 $aFetishes (Ceremonial objects)$zZambia$zChavuma District 607 $aChavuma District (Zambia)$xSocial life and customs 610 $aAnthropology. 610 $aFolklore. 610 $aLinguistics. 615 0$aLuvale (African people)$xRites and ceremonies. 615 0$aDivination 615 0$aBaskets$xReligious aspects. 615 0$aFetishes (Ceremonial objects) 676 $a299.6/8397 700 $aSilva$b So?nia$01467598 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910788578903321 996 $aAlong an African border$93678322 997 $aUNINA