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Transforming innovations in Africa [[electronic resource] ] : explorative studies on appropriation in African societies / / edited by Jan-Bart Gewald, Andre Leliveld, Iva Pesa
| Transforming innovations in Africa [[electronic resource] ] : explorative studies on appropriation in African societies / / edited by Jan-Bart Gewald, Andre Leliveld, Iva Pesa |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Leiden ; ; Boston, MA, : Brill, 2012 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (313 p.) |
| Disciplina | 658.11 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
GewaldJan-Bart
LeliveldAndre PesaIva |
| Collana | African dynamics |
| Soggetto topico |
Technological innovations - Africa
Inventions - Africa |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-283-85518-6
90-04-24544-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Preliminary Material -- 1 Introduction: Transforming innovations in Africa; explorative studies on appropriation in African societies / Jan-Bart Gewald , André Leliveld and Iva Peša -- 2 Who killed innovation in the Cape wine industry? The story of a stuck fermentation c. 1930-1986 / Paul Nugent -- 3 Entrepreneurship, colonial monetary economy and the limits of creativity: Appropriating trading stores in Northern Namibia, 1925-1980 / Gregor Dobler -- 4 Frugal innovation in Africa: Tracking Unilever’s washing-powder sachets / Cees van Beers , Peter Knorringa and André Leliveld -- 5 Mobile cash for nomadic livestock keepers: The impact of the mobile phone innovation (M-Pesa) on Maasai pastoralists in Kenya / Marcel Rutten and Moses Mwangi -- 6 From Gao: Sawaba and the politics of decolonization and insurrection in the Songhay Zone of Mali and Niger (1957-1964) / Klaas van Walraven -- 7 From self-help group to water company: The Wandiege Community Water Supply Project (Kisumu, Kenya) / Samuel O. Owuor and Dick Foeken -- 8 ‘It is time to start my own farm’: The unforeseen effects of two waves of resettlement on household formation in Zimbabwe / Marleen Dekker and Bill Kinsey -- 9 ‘Cassava is our chief’: Negotiating identity, markets and the state through cassava in Mwinilunga, Zambia / Iva Peša -- 10 The social cocktail: Weddings and the innovative mixing of competences in Botswana / Rijk van Dijk -- 11 Of labradors and libraries: The transformation of innovation on a farm in Kibale, western Uganda / Jan-Bart Gewald -- 12 Engine of change: A social history of the car-mechanics sector in the Horn of Africa / Stefano Bellucci and Massimo Zaccaria -- 13 Water innovations among the Maasai pastoralists of Kenya: The role of outside interventions in the performance of traditional shallow wells / Moses Mwangi and Marcel Rutten -- 14 Stealing from the railways: Blacksmiths, colonialism and innovation in Northern Nigeria / Shehu Tijjani Yusuf -- List of authors. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910462827603321 |
| Leiden ; ; Boston, MA, : Brill, 2012 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
| ||
Transforming innovations in Africa [[electronic resource] ] : explorative studies on appropriation in African societies / / edited by Jan-Bart Gewald, Andre Leliveld, Iva Pesa
| Transforming innovations in Africa [[electronic resource] ] : explorative studies on appropriation in African societies / / edited by Jan-Bart Gewald, Andre Leliveld, Iva Pesa |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Leiden ; ; Boston, MA, : Brill, 2012 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (313 p.) |
| Disciplina | 658.11 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
GewaldJan-Bart
LeliveldAndre PesaIva |
| Collana | African dynamics |
| Soggetto topico |
Technological innovations - Africa
Inventions - Africa |
| ISBN |
1-283-85518-6
90-04-24544-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Preliminary Material -- 1 Introduction: Transforming innovations in Africa; explorative studies on appropriation in African societies / Jan-Bart Gewald , André Leliveld and Iva Peša -- 2 Who killed innovation in the Cape wine industry? The story of a stuck fermentation c. 1930-1986 / Paul Nugent -- 3 Entrepreneurship, colonial monetary economy and the limits of creativity: Appropriating trading stores in Northern Namibia, 1925-1980 / Gregor Dobler -- 4 Frugal innovation in Africa: Tracking Unilever’s washing-powder sachets / Cees van Beers , Peter Knorringa and André Leliveld -- 5 Mobile cash for nomadic livestock keepers: The impact of the mobile phone innovation (M-Pesa) on Maasai pastoralists in Kenya / Marcel Rutten and Moses Mwangi -- 6 From Gao: Sawaba and the politics of decolonization and insurrection in the Songhay Zone of Mali and Niger (1957-1964) / Klaas van Walraven -- 7 From self-help group to water company: The Wandiege Community Water Supply Project (Kisumu, Kenya) / Samuel O. Owuor and Dick Foeken -- 8 ‘It is time to start my own farm’: The unforeseen effects of two waves of resettlement on household formation in Zimbabwe / Marleen Dekker and Bill Kinsey -- 9 ‘Cassava is our chief’: Negotiating identity, markets and the state through cassava in Mwinilunga, Zambia / Iva Peša -- 10 The social cocktail: Weddings and the innovative mixing of competences in Botswana / Rijk van Dijk -- 11 Of labradors and libraries: The transformation of innovation on a farm in Kibale, western Uganda / Jan-Bart Gewald -- 12 Engine of change: A social history of the car-mechanics sector in the Horn of Africa / Stefano Bellucci and Massimo Zaccaria -- 13 Water innovations among the Maasai pastoralists of Kenya: The role of outside interventions in the performance of traditional shallow wells / Moses Mwangi and Marcel Rutten -- 14 Stealing from the railways: Blacksmiths, colonialism and innovation in Northern Nigeria / Shehu Tijjani Yusuf -- List of authors. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910786574203321 |
| Leiden ; ; Boston, MA, : Brill, 2012 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
| ||
Transforming innovations in Africa [[electronic resource] ] : explorative studies on appropriation in African societies / / edited by Jan-Bart Gewald, Andre Leliveld, Iva Pesa
| Transforming innovations in Africa [[electronic resource] ] : explorative studies on appropriation in African societies / / edited by Jan-Bart Gewald, Andre Leliveld, Iva Pesa |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Leiden ; ; Boston, MA, : Brill, 2012 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (313 p.) |
| Disciplina | 658.11 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
GewaldJan-Bart
LeliveldAndre PesaIva |
| Collana | African dynamics |
| Soggetto topico |
Technological innovations - Africa
Inventions - Africa |
| ISBN |
1-283-85518-6
90-04-24544-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Preliminary Material -- 1 Introduction: Transforming innovations in Africa; explorative studies on appropriation in African societies / Jan-Bart Gewald , André Leliveld and Iva Peša -- 2 Who killed innovation in the Cape wine industry? The story of a stuck fermentation c. 1930-1986 / Paul Nugent -- 3 Entrepreneurship, colonial monetary economy and the limits of creativity: Appropriating trading stores in Northern Namibia, 1925-1980 / Gregor Dobler -- 4 Frugal innovation in Africa: Tracking Unilever’s washing-powder sachets / Cees van Beers , Peter Knorringa and André Leliveld -- 5 Mobile cash for nomadic livestock keepers: The impact of the mobile phone innovation (M-Pesa) on Maasai pastoralists in Kenya / Marcel Rutten and Moses Mwangi -- 6 From Gao: Sawaba and the politics of decolonization and insurrection in the Songhay Zone of Mali and Niger (1957-1964) / Klaas van Walraven -- 7 From self-help group to water company: The Wandiege Community Water Supply Project (Kisumu, Kenya) / Samuel O. Owuor and Dick Foeken -- 8 ‘It is time to start my own farm’: The unforeseen effects of two waves of resettlement on household formation in Zimbabwe / Marleen Dekker and Bill Kinsey -- 9 ‘Cassava is our chief’: Negotiating identity, markets and the state through cassava in Mwinilunga, Zambia / Iva Peša -- 10 The social cocktail: Weddings and the innovative mixing of competences in Botswana / Rijk van Dijk -- 11 Of labradors and libraries: The transformation of innovation on a farm in Kibale, western Uganda / Jan-Bart Gewald -- 12 Engine of change: A social history of the car-mechanics sector in the Horn of Africa / Stefano Bellucci and Massimo Zaccaria -- 13 Water innovations among the Maasai pastoralists of Kenya: The role of outside interventions in the performance of traditional shallow wells / Moses Mwangi and Marcel Rutten -- 14 Stealing from the railways: Blacksmiths, colonialism and innovation in Northern Nigeria / Shehu Tijjani Yusuf -- List of authors. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910813618803321 |
| Leiden ; ; Boston, MA, : Brill, 2012 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
| ||