Deborah Pellow
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 83612 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Deborah Pellow |
| NOMBRES | Deborah |
| APELLIDO | Pellow |
| FIRMA | PELLOW D |
| AFILIACIONES | Syracuse University |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 34 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 117 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 34 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1977 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Chapter 13 Recreating Community New Housing for Amui Djor Residents
Africa and Urban Anthropology
Fada
Fada: Boredom and Belonging in Niger." Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines, 55(1), pp. 227–228
Multiple Modernities
Meaning is inscribed in the material/built environment and this article considers the materiality of change in urban Africa, focusing particularly on the kitchens of a group of first-generation professionals from northern Ghana who have "made it" and now live in the suburbs of Accra, Ghana. In the hometown area, they live in or are surrounded by the architectural idiom of mud and wattle round huts, whereas in relocation, as these Ghanaians become…
Internal transmigrants
In this article, I focus on a tiny elite community of Dagomba from Ghana's Northern Region. These men (and a handful of women) were among the first to attend secondary school once it was established in the North. Highly visible professionals, these Dagomba are internal migrants, whose new world in Accra is socially and spatially vastly different from the old in the hometown area of Dagbon. Members of this diaspora are cosmopolitans, intermingling…
John Francis Marchment Middleton (1921-2009)
The Self-Consciousness of Placemaking
Sustainability and Communities of Place
New Spaces in Accra
Accra has been Ghana's primate city since the British moved their administrative headquarters there in 1877. The city took shape under British site planning and like many colonial cities, it developed a spatial layout that distinguished different neighborhoods, such as the old core, the European section, and the Muslim zongo or stranger area. Accra's Sabon Zongo ('new zongo') was founded in the first decade of the 20th century, as a refuge for mi…
Landlords and Lodgers
Based on 25 years of research on and in Sabon Zongo, one of the oldest migrant communities in Accra, Ghana, this book is about the spatial and social production of this community within this urban setting. While Sabon Zongo is clearly part of the larger urban landscape of Accra, it is also culturally distinct, representing the melding of a migrant Hausa ethos, informed by Islam, its values and its institutions, and the metropolitan knowledge shar…
Cultural Differences and Urban Spatial Forms
In this article, I expand on Coquery-Vidrovitch's observation (1991) that to understand each African urban milieu, we must view it as more than a fusion of European, American, or traditional culture. Rather, we must see each African city as unique, that is, in fact, internally differentiated, containing a multitude of enclaves that vary one from another in their respective social, physical, and architectural spatial forms. I focus on one communit…
Talking Space… At a Distance
An Interview with John Middleton
Marriage in Maradi
Setting Boundaries
Male praise-singers in Accra
In 1957 M. G. Smith published a seminal paper on the role of the male praise-singer, themaroki, among Northern Nigeria's Muslim Hausa. My paper explores the role of themarokiin the diaspora community of Sabon Zongo in Accra. While Accra'szongocommunities are considerably diluted in their Islamic orthodoxy, they are nonetheless distinctly Islamic in tone, witness the mosques, Qurʼānic schools, flowing robes and diaphanous prayer veils, and a gener…
Scenes from African Urban Life
Setting Boundaries
Illustrations Foreword by Edward T. Hall Preface Introduction The Multidimensional Nature of Boundaries: Social Classifications, Human Ecology and Domesticity by Roderick J. Lawrence Boundaries in France by Susan Carlisle Tearing Down the Fences: Public Gardens and Municipal Power in Nineteenth Century Vienna, Austria by Robert Rotenberg Tourism and the Emergence of Design Self-Consciousness in a Rural Portuguese Town by Denise Lawrence Boundarie…
The Power of Space in the Evolution of an Accra Zongo
This article examines the culture of space and its relationship to com- munity development and leadership, using an Accra zongo (stranger community) as a case example. The situation of Accra's Muslims in the late nineteenth to early twentieth centuries was one of social and spatial unity, even as they fought to main- tain ethnic distinctiveness. One Hausa faction formed a separate enclave, known as Sabon Zongo. As a group, they had no inherent ri…
Ghana
Women and Class in Africa
Women, Power, and Economic Change
An American Teachers' Strike in China
would adhere, is that it really belongs back in the western Pacific. The national museum in Port Moresby would probably have looked after the collection if it had been offered to them as a gift. Requests were made in Papua New Guinea to the British Government that the sale be deferred, but to no avail. (One day, though it may be far off, the British Museum may be both willing and legally empowered to return some of its own collections to their pl…
Muslim Segmentation
This is a study of feuding and conciliation, fissioning and fusing, among the constituent segments of Accra's Muslim community. It articulates the argument of legitimacy - to build a new mosque, to choose a new leader, in effect, to direct the group - and in so doing, politically delineates the principle that by excluding rivals it is feasible to gainsay power for one's own group
Sharing the Same Bowl
The Power of Space in the Evolution of an Accra Zongo
This article examines the culture of space and its relationship to com- munity development and leadership, using an Accra zongo (stranger community) as a case example. The situation of Accra's Muslims in the late nineteenth to early twentieth centuries was one of social and spatial unity, even as they fought to main- tain ethnic distinctiveness. One Hausa faction formed a separate enclave, known as Sabon Zongo. As a group, they had no inherent ri…
Internal transmigrants
In this article, I focus on a tiny elite community of Dagomba from Ghana's Northern Region. These men (and a handful of women) were among the first to attend secondary school once it was established in the North. Highly visible professionals, these Dagomba are internal migrants, whose new world in Accra is socially and spatially vastly different from the old in the hometown area of Dagbon. Members of this diaspora are cosmopolitans, intermingling…
Cultural Differences and Urban Spatial Forms
In this article, I expand on Coquery-Vidrovitch's observation (1991) that to understand each African urban milieu, we must view it as more than a fusion of European, American, or traditional culture. Rather, we must see each African city as unique, that is, in fact, internally differentiated, containing a multitude of enclaves that vary one from another in their respective social, physical, and architectural spatial forms. I focus on one communit…
New Spaces in Accra
Accra has been Ghana's primate city since the British moved their administrative headquarters there in 1877. The city took shape under British site planning and like many colonial cities, it developed a spatial layout that distinguished different neighborhoods, such as the old core, the European section, and the Muslim zongo or stranger area. Accra's Sabon Zongo ('new zongo') was founded in the first decade of the 20th century, as a refuge for mi…
Setting Boundaries
Women in Accra
Ghana
Multiple Modernities
Meaning is inscribed in the material/built environment and this article considers the materiality of change in urban Africa, focusing particularly on the kitchens of a group of first-generation professionals from northern Ghana who have "made it" and now live in the suburbs of Accra, Ghana. In the hometown area, they live in or are surrounded by the architectural idiom of mud and wattle round huts, whereas in relocation, as these Ghanaians become…
Marriage in Maradi
Muslim Segmentation
This is a study of feuding and conciliation, fissioning and fusing, among the constituent segments of Accra's Muslim community. It articulates the argument of legitimacy - to build a new mosque, to choose a new leader, in effect, to direct the group - and in so doing, politically delineates the principle that by excluding rivals it is feasible to gainsay power for one's own group
Work and Autonomy
This paper evaluates the autonomy that a group of nonelite urban Ghanaian women possess in their work options. To that end, I examine those factors that have been influential. These include: the association of education and employment and the exclusion of women, both outgrowths of Victorian attitudes; traditional notions about "the woman's place" and female occupations; the influence of others; and financial considerations. I suggest that the wom…
Male praise-singers in Accra
In 1957 M. G. Smith published a seminal paper on the role of the male praise-singer, themaroki, among Northern Nigeria's Muslim Hausa. My paper explores the role of themarokiin the diaspora community of Sabon Zongo in Accra. While Accra'szongocommunities are considerably diluted in their Islamic orthodoxy, they are nonetheless distinctly Islamic in tone, witness the mosques, Qurʼānic schools, flowing robes and diaphanous prayer veils, and a gener…
Recent Studies on African Women
For years, indeed until the recent emergence of feminism, the worlds of women were relatively unexplored. Social scientists solicited neither women's thoughts nor their opinions. They highlighted child-bearing and rearing as women's productive activities. Any roles other than the domestic were often misconstrued, if not entirely ignored. were written off to a mundane existence in the home. Now that the study of women has become respectable, a new…
The Self-Consciousness of Placemaking
An Interview with John Middleton
John Francis Marchment Middleton (1921-2009)
The New Urban Community
c HICAGO'S COMMUNITY AREAS in the 1920s and 1930s were objects of study for the Chicago School of Sociology. They were described as stable, homogeneous enclaves, which adhered to their respective social traditions and bore unique historic identities (Kitagawa and Taeuber 1963; Wirth 1964). They evolved naturally, not as products of conscious design (McKenzie 1971; Short 1971). South Commons, a Chicago community of the 1970s, was decidedly differe…
Recent Studies on African Women
For years, indeed until the recent emergence of feminism, the worlds of women were relatively unexplored. Social scientists solicited neither women's thoughts nor their opinions. They highlighted child-bearing and rearing as women's productive activities. Any roles other than the domestic were often misconstrued, if not entirely ignored. were written off to a mundane existence in the home. Now that the study of women has become respectable, a new…
Women in Accra
Work and Autonomy
This paper evaluates the autonomy that a group of nonelite urban Ghanaian women possess in their work options. To that end, I examine those factors that have been influential. These include: the association of education and employment and the exclusion of women, both outgrowths of Victorian attitudes; traditional notions about "the woman's place" and female occupations; the influence of others; and financial considerations. I suggest that the wom…
Women in Accra, Options for Autonomy
Women's Status, Feminist Consciousness, and Studies about African Women
Mothers and Wives
Slavery in Africa
The New Urban Community
c HICAGO'S COMMUNITY AREAS in the 1920s and 1930s were objects of study for the Chicago School of Sociology. They were described as stable, homogeneous enclaves, which adhered to their respective social traditions and bore unique historic identities (Kitagawa and Taeuber 1963; Wirth 1964). They evolved naturally, not as products of conscious design (McKenzie 1971; Short 1971). South Commons, a Chicago community of the 1970s, was decidedly differe…
Oppression and Resistance
Muslim Segmentation
This is a study of feuding and conciliation, fissioning and fusing, among the constituent segments of Accra's Muslim community. It articulates the argument of legitimacy - to build a new mosque, to choose a new leader, in effect, to direct the group - and in so doing, politically delineates the principle that by excluding rivals it is feasible to gainsay power for one's own group
Sharing the Same Bowl
Women, Power, and Economic Change
An American Teachers' Strike in China
would adhere, is that it really belongs back in the western Pacific. The national museum in Port Moresby would probably have looked after the collection if it had been offered to them as a gift. Requests were made in Papua New Guinea to the British Government that the sale be deferred, but to no avail. (One day, though it may be far off, the British Museum may be both willing and legally empowered to return some of its own collections to their pl…
Ghana
Women and Class in Africa
The Power of Space in the Evolution of an Accra Zongo
This article examines the culture of space and its relationship to com- munity development and leadership, using an Accra zongo (stranger community) as a case example. The situation of Accra's Muslims in the late nineteenth to early twentieth centuries was one of social and spatial unity, even as they fought to main- tain ethnic distinctiveness. One Hausa faction formed a separate enclave, known as Sabon Zongo. As a group, they had no inherent ri…
Scenes from African Urban Life
Setting Boundaries
Illustrations Foreword by Edward T. Hall Preface Introduction The Multidimensional Nature of Boundaries: Social Classifications, Human Ecology and Domesticity by Roderick J. Lawrence Boundaries in France by Susan Carlisle Tearing Down the Fences: Public Gardens and Municipal Power in Nineteenth Century Vienna, Austria by Robert Rotenberg Tourism and the Emergence of Design Self-Consciousness in a Rural Portuguese Town by Denise Lawrence Boundarie…
Setting Boundaries
Male praise-singers in Accra
In 1957 M. G. Smith published a seminal paper on the role of the male praise-singer, themaroki, among Northern Nigeria's Muslim Hausa. My paper explores the role of themarokiin the diaspora community of Sabon Zongo in Accra. While Accra'szongocommunities are considerably diluted in their Islamic orthodoxy, they are nonetheless distinctly Islamic in tone, witness the mosques, Qurʼānic schools, flowing robes and diaphanous prayer veils, and a gener…
Marriage in Maradi
An Interview with John Middleton
Talking Space… At a Distance
Cultural Differences and Urban Spatial Forms
In this article, I expand on Coquery-Vidrovitch's observation (1991) that to understand each African urban milieu, we must view it as more than a fusion of European, American, or traditional culture. Rather, we must see each African city as unique, that is, in fact, internally differentiated, containing a multitude of enclaves that vary one from another in their respective social, physical, and architectural spatial forms. I focus on one communit…
Landlords and Lodgers
Based on 25 years of research on and in Sabon Zongo, one of the oldest migrant communities in Accra, Ghana, this book is about the spatial and social production of this community within this urban setting. While Sabon Zongo is clearly part of the larger urban landscape of Accra, it is also culturally distinct, representing the melding of a migrant Hausa ethos, informed by Islam, its values and its institutions, and the metropolitan knowledge shar…
Sociology (26 obras) · Political science (17 obras) · African history and culture studies (12 obras) · Urban and Rural Development Challenges (12 obras) · Geography (11 obras) · History (11 obras) · Law (10 obras) · Computer Science (9 obras) · Gender Studies (9 obras) · Anthropology (8 obras)