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Puppets with a purpose: folk arts, cultural communication, and development in India

Eric Lee Littlepage

Thesis Department of Anthropology University of Virginia (2002), 66 pp.

"The use of folk arts in rural development clearly has limitations as to the role that it can play in changing people’s behavior, but it is an effective tool for communication in most cases. The greatest strength of this type of informal education lies in its ability to capture the audience’s at... more

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"We are all natives now": an overview of international and development communication research

Sandra Bramann; Hemant Shah; Jo Ellen Fair

Communication yearbook, volume 24 (2001), pp. 159-186

ISBN 0-7619-2246-6

"This chapter reviews the historical and conceptual parameters of the international communication research area, followed by a focus on communication and development. Both parts of the chapter define the scope of the areas discussed, summarize the main theoretical approaches, and present major trend... more

African broadcast cultures: radio in transition

Richard Fardon; Graham Furniss (eds.)

Oxford: James Currey Publishers (2000), xvi, 256 pp., 8 illustr., abbrev. p.xiv-xvi, index

ISBN 0-85255-828-7

"Radio has played a pivotal role in situations of conflict, crisis, change and development on the African continent. Local radio stations are as important as international broadcasters being both the barometers and agents of change. This text examines African radio broadcast cultures." (Publisher)

Public libraries in Africa: a report and annotated bibliography

Aissa Isaak (comp.)

Oxford: International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP) (2000), vi, 199 pp.

ISBN 1-902928-00-8

"The synthesis of literature quoted in the bibliography and the country reports portrays the public library movement in Africa as being very weak, with numerous problems regarding financial constraints, lack of human resources, outdated materials and poor use. The only sector of the African populati... more

Toward literate societies: publishing in local languages

Ingrid Jung

In: Educational publishing in global perspective: capacity building and trends

Shobhana Sosale (ed.)

Washington, DC: World Bank (1999), pp. 24-33

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Other Editions: Shortened version, “Publishing in African Languages in Francophone Africa” in: African Publishing Review 9, no. 2 (2000), p.12-14

"An analysis of publishing in African languages in four countries of francophone Africa (Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, and Senegal), where the Deutsche Stiftung für Internationale Entwicklung (German Foundation for International Development, now part of GIZ), in cooperation with other agencies, has be... more

The writer's reference guide to Spanish

David William Foster; Daniel Altamiranda; Carmen de Urioste

Austin: University of Texas Press (1999), vii, 274 pp., bibliogr. p.263-268, index

ISBN 0-292-72512-4 (pbk)

"This reference guide provides comprehensive information on how the Spanish language is copyedited for publication. The book covers these major areas: language basics: capitalization, word division, spelling, and punctuation; language conventions: abbreviations, professional and personal titles, nam... more

Buchlandschaften: das BuchMarktBuch 2

Johannes Seymann Gerlinde Hinterhölzl

Wien: Buchkultur Verlagsgesellschaft (1998), 197 pp.

ISBN 3-901052-36-4

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Cost-effectiveness of publishing educational materials in African languages

Maureen Woodhall (ed.)

London: Working Group on Books and Learning Materials Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA) (1997), x, 131 pp., index

ISBN 1-901830-00-4

Other Editions: also published in French

"The five case studies on the cost-effectiveness of publishing educational materials in national and local African languages, published in this volume, were commissioned in 1996 on behalf of the Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA) by its Working Group on Books and Learning ... more

Ethics in advertising

Pontifical Council for Social Communications (ed.)

Nairobi: Paulines Publications Africa (1997), 23 pp.

"Many women and men professionally engaged in advertising do have sensitive consciences, high ethical standards and a strong sense of responsibility. But even for them external pressures — from the clients who commission their work as well as from the competitive internal dynamics of their profess... more

Listening for a change: oral testimony and development

Hugo Slim; Paul Thompson

London: Panos (1993), viii, 167 pp., bibliogr. p.161-167, index

ISBN 1-870670-31-0

"The focus throughout is on "listening" to people, in order to learn from experiences. Oral testimony is considered in terms of oral history and oral artistry. The importance of listening is illustrated by a large number of entertaining case studies, drawn from both developed and developing countrie... more

A bibliography of ethnographic films

Rolf Husmann; Ingrid Wellinger; Johannes Rühl; Martin Taureg

Münster; Hamburg: Lit; Arbeitskreis für Internationale Wissenschaftskommunikation (AIW) (1992), 335 pp., index

ISBN 3-89473-352-7

Litterature d'Afrique noire: les conditions de production et de circulation du livre de 1960 a nos jours

Françoise Cévaér

Paris: Doctoral Thesis Université Paris-Nord (1992), 619 pp.

"Cette recherche propose un bilan statistique de la production litteraire africaine et une analyse des conditions materielles et economiques de production et de circulation des textes, tous deux revises a la lumiere des facteurs sociologiques et ideologiques qui les influencent." (Résumé)

Cameroon: book market research

London: International Book Development (IBD) (1990)

Study on book provision in Kenyan education

C. McGregor; K. Mortimer; T. Lisher

London: Overseas Development Administration (ODA) (1990), 77 pp.

Egypt: a survey of books and journal markets and the Egyptian book trade

London: International Book Development (IBD) (1990)

El libro en Bolivia: situación y perspectivas

Jaime Flores Zamuriano

Santa Fe de Bogotá: Centro Regional para el Fomento del Libro en América Latina y el Caribe (CERLALC) (1989), 90 pp.

Communication theory: the Asian perspective

Wimal Dissanayake (ed.)

Singapore: Asian Mass Communication Research and Information Centre (AMIC) (1988), xiv, 214 pp.

ISBN 9971-905-29-9

"Many of the essays in this volume seek to interpret traditional Asian approaches to communication in the light of modern Western concepts. At one level, this might appear to compromise the integrity of the Asian approaches. However, it needs to be stressed that this is a calculated strategy on the ... more

El libro en el Ecuador: situación y perspectivas

Francisco Delgado Santos

Santa Fe de Bogotá: Centro Regional para el Fomento del Libro en América Latina y el Caribe (CERLALC) (1987), 65 pp.

Third World film making and the West

Roy Armes

Berkeley: University of California Press (1987), xiii, 381 pp., illustr., bibliogr. p.327-361, index

ISBN 0-520-05667-1; 0-520-05690-6

"This volume is the first fully comprehensive account of film production in the Third World. Although they are usually ignored or marginalized in histories of world cinema," Third World countries now produce well over half of the world's films. Roy Armes sets out initially to place this huge output ... more

El libro en el Perú: situación y perspectivas

Luis Muelle López

Santa Fe de Bogotá: Centro Regional para el Fomento del Libro en América Latina y el Caribe (CERLALC) (1986), 56 pp.