Taming of Fate.

This book is about how extreme situations appearing to have a destructive potential can actually be used to produce meaningful individual and social lives. It is about the "taming of fate". This notion means and accounts for the ability of individuals and communities to rebuild their lives...

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Tác giả chính: Macamo, S.
Định dạng: Licensed eBooks
Ngôn ngữ:Tiếng Anh
Được phát hành: CODESRIA, 2017.
Truy cập trực tuyến:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1580225
Mục lục:
  • 1. Coping with crises and disasters in southern Mozambique
  • part one. Theoretical and methodological issues
  • 2. Studying Africa
  • 3. Risk and social reality
  • 4. Methodological issues : contexts of action
  • part two. Studies in coping with disasters and crises
  • 5. When disaster strikes
  • 6. Conflicting interpretations of reality
  • 7. War refugees
  • 8. African Christian converts and the creation of locality
  • part three. Conclusion
  • 9. The taming of fate.