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Author | : Deborah Pellow |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2008-07 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 0226653978 |
Landlords and Lodgers analyzes the results of a long-term study of a Ghanaian zongo, or “stranger quarter”—a place of refuge for Hausa migrants from northern Nigeria who have relocated to the city of Accra. Deborah Pellow explores the relationships among community members both in terms of the built structures—rooms, doors, communal structures, and hallways—and of the social networks, institutions, and routine activities that define this unique urban neighborhood. This volume will be useful to students and scholars of the relationships between architecture, migration, and social change. “This richly observed and lovingly constructed portrait of a distinctive community will be of interest to spatially informed scholars of religion, immigration, minority communities, and gender.”—Gender, Place and Culture “This theoretically informed, well-researched, and closely written book should be quite useful. . . . A fine case study of urban sense of place in a unique, yet in some ways emblematic, West African neighborhood.”—Gareth Myers, Professional Geographer
Author | : Benedikt Pontzen |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2021-01-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108830242 |
An exploration of the diversity and complexity of 'everyday' lived religion among Muslims in a zongo community in Ghana.
Author | : William A. Shack |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 1979-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780520038127 |
Author | : Setha M. Low |
Publisher | : Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages | : 452 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9780813527208 |
Anthropological perspective are not often represented in urban studies, even though many anthropologist have been contributing actively to theory and research on urban poverty, racism, globalization, and architecture. Theorizing the City corrects this omission. Following a brief history of urban anthropology, emphasizing developments in the field during the 1990s, this volume presents twelve ethnographies of major cities in the Americas, Africa, Asia, and Europe. Five images of the city-the divided city, the contested city, the global city, the modernist city, and the postmodern city-serve as frameworks for the essays. Each section highlights current research trends such as poststructural studies of race, class and gender in the urban context; political economic studies of transnational culture; and studies of the symbolic meanings and social production of urban spaces.
Author | : Holger Weiss |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 579 |
Release | : 2024-07-25 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9004699260 |
This book is the first ‘groundwork’ on Muslim NGOs in contemporary Ghana. It builds upon a database of more than 600 Muslim non-profit associations, foundations and grass-roots organisations whose activities are traced through extensive use of social media. The first part of the book scrutinises the varieties of their activities and operational spaces, their campaigns and target groups, alongside their local, regional, national and international connections. The second part analyses contemporary debates on infaq, sadaqa, waqf and zakat as well as Islamic banking and micro-finance schemes for promoting social welfare among Muslim communities in Ghana.
Author | : Ransford Tetteh |
Publisher | : Graphic Communications Group |
Total Pages | : 48 |
Release | : 2008-12-23 |
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Author | : Historical Society of Ghana |
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Total Pages | : 122 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : Ghana |
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Author | : Hansjörg Dilger |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 205 |
Release | : 2020-02-28 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1478007168 |
The contributors to Affective Trajectories examine the mutual and highly complex entwinements between religion and affect in urban Africa in the early twenty-first century. Drawing on ethnographic research throughout the continent and in African diasporic communities abroad, they trace the myriad ways religious ideas, practices, and materialities interact with affect to configure life in urban spaces. Whether examining the affective force of the built urban environment or how religious practices contribute to new forms of attachment, identification, and place-making, they illustrate the force of affect as it is shaped by temporality and spatiality in the religious lives of individuals and communities. Among other topics, they explore Masowe Apostolic Christianity in relation to experiences of displacement in Harare, Zimbabwe; Muslim identity, belonging, and the global ummah in Ghana; crime, emotions, and conversion to neo-Pentecostalism in Cape Town; and spiritual cleansing in a Congolese branch of a Japanese religious movement. In so doing, the contributors demonstrate how the social and material living conditions of African cities generate diverse affective forms of religious experiences in ways that foster both localized and transnational paths of emotional knowledge. Contributors. Astrid Bochow, Marian Burchardt, Rafael Cazarin, Hansjörg Dilger, Alessandro Gusman, Murtala Ibrahim, Peter Lambertz, Isabelle L. Lange, Isabel Mukonyora, Benedikt Pontzen, Hanspeter Reihling, Matthew Wilhelm-Solomon
Author | : Christopher Wise |
Publisher | : Lynne Rienner Publishers |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : African literature |
ISBN | : 9780894108679 |
Author | : African Society |
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Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 1920 |
Genre | : Africa |
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