Behavioral use of courtyard in a Nupe cultural landscape of Nigeria

Muhammad, Isa Bala; Said, Ismail

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“…Although language is not peculiar to women, the magnitude of the limiting effect of such exclusion could be enormous when women experience that in many other productive resources. Culture is an important variable which has effect on the economic activities such as farming; thus, the behavioral pattern and meaning people ascribe to culture requires the knowledge or their history and belief system [12].…”

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“…As such the landscape types of either flood plain or highlands have historically formed the basis on the specialty of crops cultivated by various Nupe communities. The Nupe people are constituted in various communities with different landscape and occupation such that the landscape type reflects the different occupation of the communities [12]. Furthermore, the Nupe calendar is also naturalistic as they live and really on environmental conditions of dry season, rain, cold and hot season to tell time.…”

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“…The chief 's power is, however, restricted to allocation of farmland and management of vacant land, while each individual, group, or family can exercise exclusive right on the land on their own farming. Another layer implies landlords as a remnant of feudalistic system of the Nupe kingdom [12]. It consists of absentee or sometimes resident landlords: the former are the privileged class of town Fulani and the latter, or rather farmer Fulani, probably originated from subordinates or slaves.…”

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“…Tradition, culture and social circumstances have also vested authority and dominance in the family on either the man or the woman. Where the man (father) is dominant, the family is described as patriarchal or patricentric [12,13]. This may take the form of the husband in the immediate nuclear family exercising authority or the authority being vested in the eldest male in the extended family.…”

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Background: This paper analyzes ownership and control of productive resources by gender as determined by culture. This is premised on the fact that past researchers have isolated gender and productive resources on one hand and gender and culture on the other. In this paper, the novelty is the exploration of the interplay among culture, gender and productive resources. Using a descriptive quantitative research design, a simple random sampling was used to select 100 households from a sampling frame of 200 households generated through house listing in three villages from Patigi Local Government Area of Kwara State. Data were collected with a structured questionnaire covering ownership, and decision making on selected productive resources and analyzed using Frequency counts, percentages and Chi-square test statistics based on the fact that the variables are categorical. Gender and ownership as well as decision making were cross-tabulated and then layered with culture as a third variable. Results:The results were disaggregated along Nupe and Yoruba culture as well as along gender lines for the selected productive resources covered in this paper. Men predominate in ownership of productive resources among Yoruba than Nupe culture. Women from Nupe culture had higher distribution of ownership in the productive resources than men particularly land, small livestock and non-mechanized farm equipment. The results further show higher proportion of ownership of productive resources among men in Yoruba culture. Women in Nupe culture had greater proportion of ownership of productive resources than Yoruba women. Males make decision to sell all productive resources except small livestock and also make decision in almost all the farming activities listed except when and who will take crop to the market in both Nupe and Yoruba cultures. Conclusion:Culture has a stronger influence on women's access and control of productive resources than the mere biological differentiation of gender into male and female. There is a strong cultural influence among Nupe and Yoruba women as a result of the interplay of gender, ownership and decision making and culture on selected productive resources.

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Spatial Transactions and Vernacular Architecture of a Nupe Community in Central Nigeria

Muhammad

Said

2015

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Vernacular architecture has been a subject of interest by scholars in different fields, views and perspectives. Some of such studies are on material, climate, morphology cultural behaviour and spatial needs of the people. The inclination of this research is on cultural behaviour and the use of space. This is because people’s cultural behaviour forms the foundation of vernacular architecture. However, most scholarly interests are focused on major ethnic groups with little interest on the minority ethnic group such as the Nupe ethnic group in Nigeria. Culture differs and so do the behaviour and the spatial needs of people. For a sustainable development to be attained, architecture needs to be tailored towards the cultural needs of the people. This study, therefore, embarked upon an ethnographic study to determine the basic domestic architectural spatial needs of the Nupe people, which entailed and eight months stay with the local people. The process of data elicitation included behavioural mapping and the conduct of interviews. A conclusion is drawn showing three spaces to be the most valued in the daily transactions of the Nupe community. They are zhempa, (courtyard) katamba (entrance hall) and kata (bedroom). The finding also showed that the values of spaces are not solely tied to tangible spatial utilization but also to intangible non spatial cultural values.

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Cultural interiors: The bedroom as an identity of the Nupe woman in central Nigeria

Kolo,

Muhammad

2023

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Men and women both experience space in different ways. Women are considered to occupy a high position in society due to their socio-cultural roles played. They are custodians of the domestic space; as such, they are positioned with how traditional spaces are constituted. Furthermore, spaces configured in vernacular architecture embody cultural meaning and values. One of the most important spaces within the home is the bedroom, often considered a space for copulation and rest. However, for the women, the cultural values of the bedroom go beyond its function as a resting place in most cultures. As such this study embarked on understanding the meaning and values of the bedroom of the Nupe woman and how it is spatially configured to meet her cultural identity and values. The research employed a qualitative approach toward a deep understanding of how the bedroom space of the Nupe woman is constituted spatially. The elicitation of data was carried out in 5 different Nupe communities and the content analysis of the transcribed interviews showcases a convergence in the character and meaning of the Nupe woman?s bedroom to be a space with distinctive cultural values, beyond it being a space for rest, but which is also filled with the history of the past and preserved for the future.

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Behavioral use of courtyard in a Nupe cultural landscape of Nigeria

Cited by 3 publications

References 4 publications

Rural women’s farmers access to productive resources: the moderating effect of culture among Nupe and Yoruba in Nigeria

Rural women’s farmers access to productive resources: the moderating effect of culture among Nupe and Yoruba in Nigeria

Spatial Transactions and Vernacular Architecture of a Nupe Community in Central Nigeria

Cultural interiors: The bedroom as an identity of the Nupe woman in central Nigeria

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