The Power of Space in the Evolution of an Accra Zongo

Pellow, Deborah

doi:10.2307/482480

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“…These works foreshadow studies of the social production of built form because they emphasize social, economic, and political forces that contribute to restructur ing and/or creating these communities. More contemporary anthropological works (47,182,235,236,238,285,286,313) draw upon this tradition of community studies of ethnicity, class, and urban space to explain sources of social interaction and conflict as well as the physical form of urban neighbor hoods.…”

Section: Studies Of Urban Redevelopment and Resettlementmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Built Environment and Spatial Form

Lawrence¹,

Low²

1990

Annu. Rev. Anthropol.

336

130

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INTRODUCTIONThe current fascination with what people term postmodern architecture has focused attention to the design of buildings in which we live and work, but the appeal is not limited to examples from our own familiar surroundings. During the last several decades anthropologists have been increasingly joined by others in taking a more careful look at the built environments of nonliterate societies, and especially the shelters they construct and occupy. The questions posed are broad: Why are there differences in built forms? What is the nature of these differences and what kinds of social and cultural factors might be responsible for the variation? Design practitioners, including architects, land scape architects, and planners, have become involved in debating these questions, as have behavioral and social scientists concerned with human interactions with the environment. At the same time, recent social theory has begun to focus anew on spatial as well as temporal dimensions of human behavior. These developments suggest that attention to the topic of this review is timely. Our purposes in reviewing the relevant literature include defining the major areas of research in the field in terms of issues and 453 0084-6570/90/ 1015-0453$02.00 Annu. Rev. Anthropol. 1990.19:453-505. Downloaded from www.annualreviews.org by University of Chicago Libraries on 09/17/13. For personal use only. Quick links to online content Further ANNUAL REVIEWS 454 LAWRENCE & LOW theoretical approach, critically evaluating some of the major contributions, and suggesting directions for future research.Anthropological concern with the built environment is at least as old as the first formalization of theories of cultural evolution during the 19th century. Although material remains of earlier cultural constructions, and shelters housing living cultures, were taken as evidence of evolutionary status, the underlying question about the exact nature of the relationships between society and culture and the built environment persisted. Such relationships are interactive, in that people both create, and find their behavior influenced by, the built environment. A variety of formulations have been used to con ceptualize this relationship: accommodation, adaptation, expression, repre sentation and, most recently, production and reproduction. Each of these conceptualizations represents a different theoretical perspective; each implies a different set of questions and distinct (although at times overlapping) sets of data corresponding to aspects of the built environment and human behavior.The built environment is an abstract concept employed here and in some of the literature to describe the products of human building activity. It refers in the broadest sense to any physical alteration of the natural environment, from hearths to cities, through construction by humans. Generally speaking, it includes built fo rms, which are defined as building types (such as dwellings, temples, or meeting houses) created by humans to shelter, define, and protect activity....

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Section: Studies Of Urban Redevelopment and Resettlementmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Built Environment and Spatial Form

Lawrence¹,

Low²

1990

Annu. Rev. Anthropol.

336

130

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“…In common with other Hausa settlements, that in Ibadan developed into an important trading center with the Hausa controlling and regulating the flow of generally termed zongos (see Pellow 1991). The settlement in Ibadan is referred to simply as Sabo in everyday conversation.…”

Section: History Of Sabomentioning

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The Waziri and The Thief

Salamone¹

1998

The Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law

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“…80 Pellow perceives the powers and legitimacy of chiefs as representing their shifting social capital in response to shifting circumstances in turn of the last century Accra, not least in being contingent upon British patronage. 81 Smith allows for intersection between race, ethnicity and gender, as colour of skin as social capital allows for a better marriage in Guatemala. 82 Franklin has inspired a number of studies of the way in which Afro Americans have used their social and other capital to promote community education and other advances, although the social capital of racism is equally important in the history of 'exclusion'.…”

Section: From Social Capital To Historymentioning

confidence: 99%

Social capital versus social history

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2008

Social History

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The Power of Space in the Evolution of an Accra Zongo

Cited by 28 publications

References 20 publications

The Built Environment and Spatial Form

The Built Environment and Spatial Form

The Waziri and The Thief

Social capital versus social history

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