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Together, the Royal Museum for Central Africa in Tervuren, Belgium, and the Institut des Musées Nationaux du Zaire (IMNZ) in the Congo have defined and marketed Congolese art and culture. In Authentically African, Sarah Van Beurden traces the relationship between the possession, definition, and display of art and the construction of cultural authenticity and political legitimacy from the late colonial until the postcolonial era. Her study of the interconnected histories of these two institutions is the first history of an art museum in Africa, and the only work of its kind in English.Drawing on Flemish-language sources other scholars have been unable to access, Van Beurden illuminates the politics of museum collections, showing how the IMNZ became a showpiece in Mobutu’s effort to revive “authentic” African culture. She reconstructs debates between Belgian and Congolese museum professionals, revealing how the dynamics of decolonization played out in the fields of the museum and international heritage conservation. Finally, she casts light on the art market, showing how the traveling displays put on by the IMNZ helped intensify collectors’ interest and generate an international market for Congolese art.The book contributes to the fields of history, art history, museum studies, and anthropology and challenges existing narratives of Congo’s decolonization. It tells a new history of decolonization as a struggle over cultural categories, the possession of cultural heritage, and the right to define and represent cultural identities.
Art, Congolese (Democratic Republic) --- #SBIB:39A5 --- #SBIB:39A73 --- Art, Zairian --- Congolese (Democratic Republic) art --- History. --- Political aspects. --- Appreciation --- Kunst, habitat, materiële cultuur en ontspanning --- Etnografie: Afrika --- Institut des musées nationaux du Zaïre --- Musée royal de l'Afrique centrale --- Africa Turvuren --- Königliches Museum für Zentralafrika --- Koninklijk Museum voor Midden-Afrika --- Musée de Tervuren --- Tervuren, Belgium. --- Royal Museum for Central Africa --- Royal Museum of Central Africa --- MRAC --- KMMA --- RMCA --- Musée royal du Congo belge --- I.M.N.Z. --- IMNZ --- Institut des musées nationaux (Zaire) --- Institute of the National Museums of Zaïre --- Zaire. --- Congolese [Republic of the Congo culture] --- Colonisation. Decolonisation --- Museology --- Art --- Royal Museum for Central Africa [Tervuren] --- Congo --- Belgium --- Musée royal de l'Afrique centrale --- Institut des musées nationaux du Zaïre --- Africa Museum --- Tervuren, Belgium. Musée royal de l'Afrique centrale --- History --- Political aspects
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This title provides a detailed, comprehensive, and objective analysis of Malawi's agricultural input subsidy programme, its history, implementation, achievements, and shortcomings.
Economic development --- Agricultural subsidies --- Agricultural industries --- Farm subsidies --- Development, Economic --- Economic growth --- Growth, Economic --- Subsidies --- Agriculture and state --- Economic policy --- Economics --- Statics and dynamics (Social sciences) --- Development economics --- Resource curse --- Africa --- Agricultural development --- Agricultural policy --- Fertilizers --- Input subsidies --- Malawi --- Politics --- E-books --- Developing countries. --- Malawi. --- Republic of Malawi --- Republik Malawi --- Njassaland --- Nyasaland --- Nyassaland --- Britisch-Njassaland --- Nyasaland Protectorate --- British Central Africa Protectorate --- British Central Africa --- Malavi --- Ma-la-wei --- Malawier --- 06.07.1964 --- -Africa --- Dziko la Malaŵi --- Malaui --- Maraui --- Republic of Malaŵi --- República de Malawi --- Emerging nations --- Fourth World --- Global South --- LDC's --- Least developed countries --- Less developed countries --- Newly industrialized countries --- Newly industrializing countries --- NICs --- Third World --- Underdeveloped areas --- Underdeveloped countries --- -Economic development --- Agricultural subsidies. --- Economic development. --- Development economics.
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The present volume comprises 6 highly original studies on material text cultures in different nontypographic societies stretching from the 3rd millennium cuneiform textual record of Ancient Mesopotamia to 20th century Qur'anic boards of northern and central African provenience. It provides a multidisciplinary approach to material text cultures complementary to the interdisciplinary, strongly theory-grounded research scheme of the CRC 933. Six research fellowships were awarded to outstanding young researchers for innovative, high-risk research proposals pertinent to the CRC 933's overall research scheme. Their studies contained in this volume add multidisciplinary dimension to material text culture research, satisfy the curiosity as to the applicability of the theoretical premises and methodology developed and tested by the CRC 933 to research on inscribed artefacts carried out on an international level and in different research environments and contribute to anchoring material text culture research as proposed by the CRC 933 within the tradition and broader context of other research strategies devoted to the material dimension of writing, such as the filologia materiale.
Writing --- Material culture --- Social aspects --- History. --- Middle East --- Africa, North --- Africa, Central --- Social life and customs. --- Chirography --- Handwriting --- Language and languages --- Ciphers --- Penmanship --- Culture --- Folklore --- Technology --- Africa, Equatorial --- Central Africa --- Equatorial Africa --- Asia, South West --- Asia, Southwest --- Asia, West --- Asia, Western --- East (Middle East) --- Eastern Mediterranean --- Fertile Crescent --- Levant --- Mediterranean Region, Eastern --- Mideast --- Near East --- Northern Tier (Middle East) --- South West Asia --- Southwest Asia --- West Asia --- Western Asia --- Orient --- Material text cultures. --- nontypographic societies.
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Current efforts to limit the ravages of schistosomiasis are pushing the world closer to eliminating a chronic infection that has been associated with human life in the tropics since time immemorial. This notwithstanding, the disease remains a scourge for large populations in sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, and Southeast Asia, and the main part of this book is made up by papers dealing with its current distribution, discussing ways and means to establish and implement improved control approaches. While chemotherapy limits the symptoms caused by schistosomiasis, the number of infected people will not decrease until the parasite's life cycle is interrupted. To that end, some papers focus on the intermediate snail host, which is notoriously difficult to control, while others discuss human hygiene and sanitation. The latter approach not only prevents infection through avoiding people being infected from the snail, but more importantly, also stops people infecting the snail by leaving contagious feces and urine in nature. With morbidity reduced by chemotherapy, the immediate target now is the interruption of transmission to be achieved by new tools, such as the novel chemotherapies, improved diagnostics (for humans, animals, and snails), and vaccines discussed in several of the papers. As made clear in this book, a complex infection requires new tools as well as work on many fronts, above all; however, a clear idea is needed as to how to skillfully combine the tools available and sustain implemented control activities.
n/a --- Cambodia --- schistosomiasis elimination --- chemotherapy --- Côte d’Ivoire --- systems thinking --- Schistosomiasis mansoni --- control and elimination --- neglected tropical diseases --- drug discovery --- systems epidemiology --- guidelines --- schistosomiasis --- Central Africa --- goals --- mapping --- Africa --- cattle --- zoonosis --- systematic non-compliance --- Lao PDR --- Sm14 --- POC-CCA --- planorbidae --- complexity --- distribution --- remote-sensing --- Neotricula aperta --- sanitation --- Biomphalaria glabrata --- Schistosomiasis --- international space station --- Mayuge --- elimination --- spatio-temporal epidemiology --- goats --- FABP --- artemether --- interdisciplinarity --- praziquantel --- soil-transmitted-helminthiasis --- Caribbean --- health education --- snail --- Schistosoma haematobium --- snail resistance --- 28S ribosomal DNA --- WIPO Re:Search --- intermediate snail host --- Schistosoma malayensis --- Gabon --- transmission --- soil-transmitted helminths --- combination therapy --- S. mansoni --- climate change --- domestic animals --- Schistosoma mansoni --- diagnosis --- Schistosoma japonicum --- leishmaniasis --- modelling --- public-private partnerships --- GIS --- ECOSTRESS --- young adults --- Oncomelania hupensis --- PCR --- Bulinus truncatus --- gene drive --- worldview --- S. japonicum zoonosis --- coverage rate --- phylogeography --- cross-sector collaboration --- epidemiology --- preventive chemotherapy --- MDA coverage --- China --- operational research --- transmission control --- satellite --- high-sensitivity diagnostics --- loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) --- sheep --- polymerase chain reaction --- BIO Ventures for Global Health --- bovines --- Kato-Katz --- vaccine development --- treatment-opportunities --- Philippines --- buffalo --- Schistosoma mekongi --- control --- Schistosoma --- vector control --- vaccine --- parasite --- Asia --- transgenic snail --- snail control --- DNA --- capacity-building --- Uganda --- pooled samples --- Côte d'Ivoire
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