Africa in the long run
Subtitle: festschrift in the honour of Professor Arvi Hurskainen
By: edited by Lotta Harjula and Maaria Ylänkö.
Contributors: Hurskainen, Arvi.; Harjula, Lotta.; Ylänkö, Maaria, 1967-; Suomen Itämainen Seura.
Series: Studia Orientalia -- 103.; Studia Orientalia -- 103.
Publisher: Finnish Oriental Society
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Helsinki
Language: eng
Number of pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9789519380674
Subjects: Hurskainen, Arvi; Hurskainen, Arvi; Ethnology -- Africa; Anthropological linguistics -- Africa; African languages -- Research; Africa -- Social life and customs
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Preface / Lotta Harjula & Maaria Ylänkö; title: Bibliography of the publications of Arvi Hurskainen; title: Trickster-God Ghambageu and Sonjo resistance to Christian mission / Mika Väkäkangas; title: Stigma and shame of HIV/AIDS in the life stories of Alpha group / Auli Väkäkangas; title: The race to Lake Chad or white men's 'sporting tours' in West Africa, c. 1900-1902 / Holger Weiss; title: Long struggle for the Shari'a in northern Nigeria / Risto Marjomaa; title: Will Kinshasa persist? Impressions about the status and the economy of a capital in a collapsed state / Maaria Ylänkö; title: Interpreting and translating African proverbs: problems and challenges / Raimo Harjula; title: Swahili's currents spread to a remote area: data from primary schools in Vidunda ward (Central Tanzania) / Karsten Legère; title: Genealogical discontinuity and recontinuity in Hidkala oral traditions / H. Ekkehard Wolff; title: Emotions, somatization and psychiatric symptoms among the Akan / Anu Quarshie; title: On tone case in Kwanyama and Herero / E.D. Elderkin; title: Harmonic versus non-harmonic final vowel in the verbal inflection of Kwanyama / Riikka Halme; title: Designing orthography for the Ha language / Lotta Harjula; title: Views of periphery of ICT and development perspectives from Canada to Africa / Jussi Raumolin; title: A finite-state approach to linguistic constraints in Zulu morphological analysis / Sonja E. Bosch & Laurette Pretorius.