Across the Sahara : tracks, trade and cross-cultural xchange in Libya / / edited by Klaus Braun, Jacqueline Passon |
Autore | Braun Klaus |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Springer Nature, 2020 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xviii, 260 pages) : illustrations (some colour); digital file(s) |
Disciplina | 330.0096 |
Soggetto topico |
Africa—Economic conditions
Historical geography Africa, North—History Remote sensing Ethnology—Africa |
Soggetto non controllato |
African Economics
Historical Geography History of North Africa Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry African Culture Economy-wide Country Studies Caravan Trading in the 19th century Libyan Sahara Central Sahara Open Access Atlas of Caravan Tracks Historical Maps Concepts of Spacial Orientation Trade Networks Caravan Routes 19th century Trade in the Sahara Trans-Saharan trails Historic Oases Economics Historical geography African history Geographical information systems & remote sensing Cultural studies |
ISBN | 3-030-00145-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Foreword by Prof. Dr. Mohammend Jerary -- Introduction -- Across the vast land -- A journey through time -- Traders, Nomads and Slaves -- Navigating and mapping the "white spot" -- On major trans-Saharan trails -- Places of Trade, Communication and Religion - Important Oases -- Bibliography. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910416134603321 |
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Adornment, Masquerade and African Femininity / / by Ismahan Soukeyna Diop |
Autore | Diop Ismahan Soukeyna |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2023.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2023 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (194 pages) |
Disciplina | 111.85096 |
Collana | Pan-African Psychologies |
Soggetto topico |
Psychoanalysis
Clinical psychology Ethnology—Africa Culture Ethnopsychology Race Sex (Psychology) Clinical Psychology African Culture Cross-Cultural Psychology Race and Ethnicity Studies Psychology of Gender and Sexuality Bellesa femenina (Estètica) Feminisme Teoria crítica Identitat racial Identitat de gènere |
Soggetto genere / forma | Llibres electrònics |
ISBN |
9783031287480
9783031287473 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Representation of the feminine body -- Chapter 3: The divine aspect of beauty -- Chapter 4: Adornment and symbolism -- Chapter 5: Adornment and social representation -- Chapter 6: Masquerade and femininity -- Chapter 7: Theoretico-clinical articulation and analysis -- Chapter 8: Conclusion. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910720078803321 |
Diop Ismahan Soukeyna
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Africa and Globalization : Challenges of Governance and Creativity / / edited by Toyin Falola, Kenneth Kalu |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2018.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2018 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (261 pages) |
Disciplina | 337.16 |
Collana | African Histories and Modernities |
Soggetto topico |
Africa—History
Ethnology—Africa Africa—Politics and government Economic development African History African Culture African Politics Development Studies |
ISBN | 3-319-74905-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 1. Introduction: Africa in a Globalized World -- I. Africa's Adaptation to Globalization -- 2. The Rediscovery of Africa -- 3. Globalization and the Creative Space in Africa: Implications for Governance and Development -- 4. Postcolonial Africa's Development Trajectories -- 5. Collective Social Action: Enlightenment Ethic and the Rise of Modern Individualism -- 6. Same Migrants, Two Business Models: Culture-centered and Non-traditional Businesses Established by Ethiopians and Eritreans in Washington D.C -- 7. Making Sense of South Africa's Soft Power: Projections, Prospects, and Possibilities -- II. Governance and Creativity -- 8. Developmental Strategies and Cultural Dynamics in Rural Nigeria -- 9. The Impossible Craft of Nation-Building in Postcolonial Cameroon -- 10. Creativity and New Technologies: Piracy, Politics, and the Business of Cultural Production in Nigeria -- 11. Igbo Community Policing and its Relevance for Contemporary Nigeria -- 12. "Come and Chop": Representations of the Parliamentarian in Ola Rotimi's If and Emeka Nwabueze's A Parliament of Vultures. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910299802903321 |
Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2018 | ||
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Africa on the Contemporary London Stage / / edited by Tiziana Morosetti |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2018.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2018 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (251 pages) |
Disciplina | 792.09421 |
Soggetto topico |
Theater
Theater—History Ethnology—Africa Contemporary Theatre Theatre History National/Regional Theatre and Performance African Culture |
ISBN | 3-319-94508-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 1. Introduction; Tiziana Morosetti -- 2. Freedom, London 1955: A Story of Modern Africa Written and Acted by Africans, or Perhaps Not; James Gibbs -- 3. Africa on the British Stage, 1955-1966; Stephen J. Nicholson -- 4. ‘On One of Those Sunday Nights’: 50 Years of Africa at the Royal Court; Tiziana Morosetti -- 5. Biyi Bandele’s Theatre of the Afropolitan Absurd; Michael Pearce -- 6. Nigerian Political Satire at the Soho Theatre: Class, Culture, and Theatrical Languages in Oladipo Agboluaje’s The Estate and Iyale (The First Wife); Lynette Goddard -- 7. Black Masculinity and the Black Voice: Casting and Canonicity in the National Theatre Gala; Sophie Duncan -- 8. Disrupting Historical Mis-Representations and Constructions: Talawa Theatre, Tiata Fahodzi and Representations of Polyphonic Africa on the Contemporary London Stage; Victor Ukaegbu -- 9. Iroko Theatre and the African Theatre-in-Education Scene in London; Alex Oma-Pius -- 10. ‘But [We] Will Delve One Yard below Their Mines/And Blow Them at the Moon’: Two Gents: ‘Africa’, Shakespeare, and the Silent Revolutio; Arne Pohlmeier -- 11. Interview with Ade Solanke; Tiziana Morosetti -- 12. Interview with Rotimi Babatunde; Ying Cheng -- 13. Interview with Dipo Agboluaje; Tiziana Morosetti. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910303437103321 |
Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2018 | ||
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African American Religious Life and the Story of Nimrod [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Anthony B. Pinn, Allen Dwight Callahan |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2008 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (288 p.) |
Disciplina | 220.8/305896 |
Collana | Black Religion/Womanist Thought/Social Justice |
Soggetto topico |
Ethnology—Africa
Religion Religion—History Religion and sociology Bible—Theology Ethnicity African Culture Religious Studies, general History of Religion Sociology of Religion Biblical Studies Ethnicity Studies |
ISBN |
1-283-52780-4
9786613840257 0-230-61050-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction: "Figures of the true" / Allen Dwight Callahan -- The hunter and the game : reappropriating the legend of Nimrod from an African American theological perspective / James H. Evans, Jr. -- God of restraint : an African American humanist interpretation of Nimrod and the Tower of Babel / Anthony B. Pinn -- "I am black and beautiful, o ye daughters of Jerusalem" : African American virtue ethics and a womanist hermeneutics of redemption / Stacey M. Floyd-Thomas -- "Lest we be scattered abroad" : Nimrod, Marcus Garvey, and Black religious humanism in Harlem / Juan M. Floyd-Thomas -- More than a mighty hunter : George Washington Williams, nineteenth-century racialized discourse, and the reclamation of Nimrod / Abraham Smith -- The story of Nimrod : a struggle with otherness and the search for identity / Arthur L. Pressley -- Nimrod : reading the Bible with South African eyes / Elelwani B. Farisani -- Nimrod and Dead Prez : walking like a warrior / Ralph C. Watkins -- Nimrod and the South African context / Dorothy M. Farisani -- Who is the man? : Nimrod, Afrocentricism, and the African American dream / Lee H. Butler, Jr. -- "The strength of collective man" : Nimrod and the Tower of Babel / Allen Dwight Callahan -- Nimrod : paradigm of future oppressive systems / Jimmy Kirby -- Beyond the curse of Noah : African American pastoral theology as political / Edward P. Wimberly -- A tower of pulpits / Dale P. Andrews -- Reorientation by reference to "wrong way" makers : evaluating a modern signifying mythicization of an ancient mythicization / Theodore Walker, Jr. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910781087703321 |
New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2008 | ||
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African Immigrant Families in Another France [[electronic resource] /] / by L. Bass |
Autore | Bass L |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2014.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (205 p.) |
Disciplina | 305.896/044 |
Collana | Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship |
Soggetto topico |
Social policy
Ethnicity Culture—Study and teaching Ethnology—Africa Sociology Emigration and immigration Social Policy Ethnicity Studies Cultural and Media Studies, general African Culture Sociology, general Migration |
ISBN |
1-349-34854-6
1-137-31392-7 |
Classificazione | SOC007000SOC008000SOC031000SOC032000 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Half-Title ; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Part I African Immigrants and France; Introduction to Part I; 1 Introduction - " Another France"; Plan of book; 2 Why Study Sub-Saharan African Immigrants in France?; Imperative of this research; Policy responses to integration issues; A need for African women's and youths' perspectives on integration; Increasing numbers of Sub-Saharan African immigrants in France; Individuals and methods of this study; Plan of analysis; 3 A Post-Colonial Bouillabaisse : Africans in France - Context and Theory
A post-colonial bouillabaisse with Africans(Under)counting Sub-Saharan Africans in France; Identity, citizenship, and an ostrich policy for Sub-Saharan Africans; Trouble in the 'burbs; Phantom fathers, single mothers, and the French social safety net; Practical and theoretical approaches to integration; "Assimilation" and "racialization," and segmented assimilation; Cultural-materialist framework; Part II Structural and Cultural Considerations; Introduction to Part II; 4 Social Structures Shaping Immigrant Integration - "The Power of Skin"; Blocked by state bureaucracy Immigrant policies over the past two decadesInteraction with the state - equal protections in law and practice; The state, formalities, and finding an apartment; Limited by labor-market opportunities; The night shift hampers family functioning; "Colorism" translates into obstructed labor-market opportunity; Race status and the conveyance of immigrant status; Racism in work, school, and play; Being black in France; Contesting structural inequality; Summary - structurally and socially dislocated; 5 Cultural Differences, Asserting Oneself, and Religion - "Take Your Place" Comprehending cultural differencesHow can you protect your children from the individualism here?; The individual and individualism before family; Parenting differences, protecting children, and identity formation; Comprehending cultural difference and identity formation; Negotiating one's place in France; Asserting oneself or "take your place"; Negotiating a morally superior position and/or identity; Religion as culture and structure; Religion as a normative force; La laïcité in the law and practice; Relational problems - "churches were closed" or "they did not write the Koran well" Religion as a cultural resource6 Identity and Integration of Youth - "French on the Inside"; Identity - "French on the inside, African on the out"; Religion - "children need church"; The intersection of race and immigrant statuses - "we are different ... not French"; Education - "there were no blacks in my class after the bac "; Economic opportunity - "race marks immigrants ... they will not offer you a position"; Integration, discrimination, and "outsider" status; Identity formation - the making of the Clichy-sous-Bois riots; Culture of non-acceptance; Structurally hampered Youth identity - "we have to take our place" |
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Bass L
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African Mythology, Femininity, and Maternity / / by Ismahan Soukeyna Diop |
Autore | Diop Ismahan Soukeyna |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2019.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2019 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (172 pages) |
Disciplina |
299.6
398.082 |
Collana | Pan-African Psychologies |
Soggetto topico |
Cross-cultural psychology
Clinical psychology Sociology Ethnology—Africa Philosophy, Asian Cross Cultural Psychology Clinical Psychology Gender Studies African Culture Non-Western Philosophy |
ISBN | 3-030-24662-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Preface -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Feminine Figures in African Mythology -- Chapter 3: Symbolic References to the feminine body -- Chapter 4: Correspondences with tales from Europe and Middle East -- Chapter 5: Impact on women's social status -- Chapter 6: Women in the contemporaryAfrican literature -- Chapter 7: Clinical representation of femininity and maternity in the mother-daughter relationship: Analysis of clinical cases -- Chapter 8: Conclusion. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910349341903321 |
Diop Ismahan Soukeyna
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An African Philosophy of Personhood, Morality, and Politics / / by Motsamai Molefe |
Autore | Molefe Motsamai |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2019.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2019 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (185 pages) |
Disciplina |
128
199.6 |
Soggetto topico |
Philosophy, Asian
Ethnology—Africa African literature Non-Western Philosophy African Culture African Literature |
ISBN | 3-030-15561-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 1: Introduction -- 2: A Conceptual Mapping of Personhood -- 3: An Exposition of Personhood as Moral Theory -- 4: Personhood: Partiality or Impartiality -- 5: Personhood and Options in African Moral Thought -- 6: Personhood and Dignity in African Philosophy -- 7: Personhood as a Political Theory of Duties. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910337691403321 |
Molefe Motsamai
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African Postcolonial Modernity [[electronic resource] ] : Informal Subjectivities and the Democratic Consensus / / by S. Osha |
Autore | Osha S |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2014.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (277 p.) |
Disciplina | 320.96 |
Collana | African Histories and Modernities |
Soggetto topico |
Ethnology—Africa
Popular culture - Study and teaching Social sciences Imperialism Social history Ethnology African Culture Cultural Studies Social Sciences, general Imperialism and Colonialism Social History Cultural Anthropology |
ISBN |
1-349-49617-0
1-137-44693-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; List of Abbreviations; Chapter 1 The Polis: From Greece to an African Athens; Chapter 2 The Order/Other of Political Culture; Chapter 3 Urbanscapes; Chapter 4 Youth, Violence, and the Production of Knowledge; Chapter 5 (Mis)Understanding Mbekism; Chapter 6 Global Activism and Discourses of Dispossession in South Africa; Chapter 7 African Sexualities I; Chapter 8 African Sexualities II; Conclusion Yearnings of Modernity; Notes; Bibliography; Name Index; Subject Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910787821803321 |
Osha S
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African Womanhood and Incontinent Bodies : Kenyan Women with Vaginal Fistulas / / by Kathomi Gatwiri |
Autore | Gatwiri Kathomi |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2019.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Singapore : , : Springer Singapore : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2019 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (XVII, 210 p.) |
Disciplina | 306.4613 |
Soggetto topico |
Human body—Social aspects
Culture Gender Maternal and child health services Women Ethnology—Africa Gynecology Sociology of the Body Culture and Gender Maternal and Child Health Women's Studies African Culture |
ISBN | 981-13-0565-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Exploring African Feminisms: Context, Positioning, and Making the Personal Political -- Two: The Problem of Vaginal Fistulas: Dimensions and Trends -- African Women, Gender, Health, and Sexuality: Theoretical Considerations -- Vaginal Fistulas and Structural Disadvantage -- Rationalising Fistulas: A Cultural Influence and Response -- Flawed Bodies, Blackness, and Incontinence -- Recreating African Womanhood and Rewriting Our Stories: Bringing the Narratives to a Close -- References -- Index. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910350288603321 |
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