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Nollywood-Inspired Migrant Filmmaking in Switzerland
This book introduces the emerging, but still little-known, phenomenon of Nollywood-inspired filmmaking by African migrants in Europe. Using the unique example of a performance ethnographic case study in Switzerland, it shows how members of the African diaspora represent themselves through audio-visual media and what influence the post-colonial images of the Nigerian video film industry have on their image production. Drawing on Jean Rouch’s Shared Anthropology and the methods of Performance Ethnography, this book provides an in-depth look at the complexity of migrants’ everyday lives and showcases Nollywood-inspired transnational filmmaking practices. In its refreshing and accessible writing style, it also illustrates the performance ethnographic research process, highlights the pitfalls and challenges of collaborative film projects, and critically engages with fundamental questions of social research in decolonial settings.
Nollywood in Glocal Perspective
This book gives a panoramic view of the rise and growth of Nollywood, Nigeria’s movie and home video entertainment industry, into the second largest and most prolific movie-producing industry in the world. It offers an analysis of Nollywood’s influence as a local and global cultural force. Scholars from Africa, the African Diaspora and beyond examine the factors that have shaped Nollywood’s unique story-telling, production, and distribution system. The volume shows how internal and external economic, social, cultural and technological changes intersect to define Nollywood’s film-making and entertainment ethos. It is grounded in sound theoretical perspectives that help readers understand the texts and subtexts of the industry’s emergence, transformation, and impact. The range of subjects covered span Nollywood’s historical roots in Nigeria pre-colonial traveling/community theatre to colonial era film-making, and its contemporary spin-offs and inspired cousins across Africa and in Europe. It illuminates the interface of artistic, business, cultural and technological innovation and creativity at the heart of Africa’s local and global pop culture explosion.
Tausch.Beziehungen – Sozialanthropologische Perspektiven. Exchange.Relations – Perspectives from Social Anthropology
Tauschbeziehungen sind in ihren vielfältigen Formen zentral in der sozialanthropologischen Forschung. Die Autor:innen der 26 Buchbeiträge zeigen auf, wie (materielle) Transaktionen soziale Beziehungen und Institutionen (re)produzieren und transformieren, wie Austauschbeziehungen in Macht- und Schuldverhältnisse eingebettet sind, wie Reziprozität Feldforschungsbeziehungen und interdisziplinäre Zusammenarbeit prägt und wo Tauschbeziehungen enden können. Der Akt des Gebens oder Empfangens einer Gabe ist dabei kein abgeschlossenes Ereignis, sondern Teil einer kontinuierlichen sozialen Beziehung.
Biography and Genealogy Master Index, a Consolidated Index to More Than 3,200,000 Biographical Sketches in Over 350 Current and Retrospective Biographical Dictionaries, Second Edition. 1981-82 Supplement
A consolidated index to biographical sketches in current and retrospective biographical dictionaries.
Who's who in Switzerland
Issues for 1950/51- include "Index of Organizations, associations, and institutions."
My Journey
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY HARPER’S BAZAAR • In this candid memoir, featuring a foreword by Barbra Streisand, renowned designer Donna Karan shares intimate details about her lonely childhood, her four-plus decades in the fashion industry, her two marriages, motherhood, and her ongoing quest for self-acceptance and spiritual peace. Donna Karan was born into the fashion business—her father was a tailor, and her mother was a showroom model and Seventh Avenue saleswoman—yet Karan dreamed of becoming a dancer like Martha Graham or a singer like Barbra Streisand. Fashion was her destiny, though. My Journey traces Karan’s early days as an intern at Anne Klein, the creation...
