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Download or read book People of the Zongo : the Transformation of Ethnic Identities in Ghana written by and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Enid Schildkrout
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521040532
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (45 download)
Download or read book People of the Zongo written by Enid Schildkrout and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-09-17 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr Schildkrout probes questions of ethnicity, religion, cultural change and the African national identity in this study of the immigrant community of Kumasi, Ghana's second largest city. She compares first- and second-generation immigrants - those born in their rural homelands, and those born in Ghana - in terms of their orientation to politics, to kinship, and to community participation. The author explores the meaning of ethnic identity for rural- and urban-born immigrants, and establishes certain generalizations about ethnicity based on these comparisons. The book discusses the issues of migration, particularly interregional migration; the position of the 'stranger'; questions of cultural change in modern Africa; the 'generational gap' in the African context; the questions of citizenship and national identity in Africa today, and the emergence of new identities, regional, national and religious. This book has importance not only as a local case study that gives a full description of West African urban life, but also as a theoretical reconsideration of ethnicity that has application outside the African context.
Author : Benedikt Pontzen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108901506
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Islam in a Zongo written by Benedikt Pontzen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-07 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on empirical and archival research, this ethnography is an exploration of the diversity and complexity of 'everyday' lived religion among Muslims in Ghana's Asante region, demonstrating the interconnectedness of Islam with people's lives in a zongo community.
Author : Deborah Pellow
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226653978
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (266 download)
Download or read book Landlords and Lodgers written by Deborah Pellow and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-07 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Mohammed Naseehu Ali
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0060523549
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (65 download)
Download or read book The Prophet of Zongo Street written by Mohammed Naseehu Ali and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2005-07-26 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Prophet of Zongo Street is a dazzling collection of stories that calls to mind Ben Okri and Chinua Achebe. Mohammed Naseehu Ali, the tradition's acclaimed new practitioner, offers up ten powerful and beautifully rendered tales. Set primarily on the fictitious Zongo Street -- a close-knit community of wonderfully quirky characters who hold tight to superstition, religion, and family -- these stories are anchored by the uproarious, the embarrassing, the poignant, and the rawest moments of life.
Author : Benedikt Pontzen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108830242
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (88 download)
Download or read book Islam in a Zongo written by Benedikt Pontzen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-07 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of the diversity and complexity of 'everyday' lived religion among Muslims in a zongo community in Ghana.
Author : Hansjörg Dilger
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 1478007168
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (78 download)
Download or read book Affective Trajectories written by Hansjörg Dilger and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-28 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Yaw Boadu-Ayeboafoh
Publisher : Graphic Communications Group
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Daily Graphic written by Yaw Boadu-Ayeboafoh and published by Graphic Communications Group. This book was released on 2005-10-04 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Setha M. Low
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813527208
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (272 download)
Download or read book Theorizing the City written by Setha M. Low and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
ISBN 13 : 9004699260
Total Pages : 579 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)
Download or read book Muslim Empowerment in Ghana written by Holger Weiss and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2024-07-25 with total page 579 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Historical Society of Ghana
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Transactions of the Historical Society of Ghana written by Historical Society of Ghana and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William A. Shack
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520038127
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (381 download)
Download or read book Strangers in African Societies written by William A. Shack and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1979-01-01 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Christopher Wise
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780894108679
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (86 download)
Download or read book The Desert Shore written by Christopher Wise and published by Lynne Rienner Publishers. This book was released on 2001 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ransford Tetteh
Publisher : Graphic Communications Group
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Daily Graphic written by Ransford Tetteh and published by Graphic Communications Group. This book was released on 2014-03-03 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Leszek Kosiński
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000995216
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)
Download or read book People on the Move written by Leszek Kosiński and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-08-18 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1975, this volume examines conceptual and theoretical aspects of the study of internal migration, both in chapters dealing specifically with theory and data and in case studies. The book discusses the question of who migrates, and why and what are the patterns of flow and direction of movement. The consequences of migration are analysed. Migration is one of the most difficult components of population change to conceptualize and measure and this book considers a wide range of aspects of migration and the problems connected with it.
Author : Cecilia Sem Obeng
Publisher : Nova Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781590334690
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (346 download)
Download or read book Home was Uncomfortable; School was Hell written by Cecilia Sem Obeng and published by Nova Publishers. This book was released on 2002 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ghana has faced strong gender bias inside its educational institutions since gaining independence from Britain. This prejudice is fuelled by the legacy of the colonial powers, nurtured by Ghana's traditional anti-female beliefs, and made worse by various social crises and irresponsible politicians. These factors combine to limit girls' educational experiences, keeping females in complete submission to males. Many of the studies done on girls' education have focused on comparing the student population of girls and boys, but this book looks at the role played by societal belief systems and socio-educational and economic crises impacting girls' schooling. The author tells about the problems Ghanaian girls face through her own memories as a child and as a teacher in Ghanaian school. This book uses case studies of four girls who dropped out of school and their families and teachers to further the understanding of gender issues faced by Ghana in particular and educational systems in general.
Author : African Society
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (34 download)
Download or read book Journal of the African Society written by African Society and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
