Lineage and Locality among the Mba-Ise Ibo

Africa ◽  
1959 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 113-133 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edwin Ardener
Keyword(s):  
Population Growth ◽  
Social Organization ◽  
Central Area ◽  
Eastern Region ◽  
Migrant Population ◽  
Territorial Organization ◽  
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Opening ParagraphAcross the central area of Ibo country, in the Eastern Region of Nigeria, is a thickly populated belt in which population growth has rarely resulted in the development of compact urban or quasi-urban centres, except under exceptional, generally modern, conditions. Typically, the population is spread so evenly throughout the palm-forest that it is difficult to believe that concentrations of over 1,000 persons per square mile are now quite commonplace. The population of Mba-Ise is 186,300 in only about 167 square miles, with a migrant population elsewhere of about 30,000. This type of settlement has put a special imprint on social organization in the area, and some of the interrelationships between lineage, territorial organization, and other kinds of groupings are indicated in this article.

scholarly journals Research on Spatiotemporal Differentiation and Influence Mechanism of Urban Resilience in China Based on MGWR Model

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 1056
Author(s):  
Yu Chen ◽  
Mengke Zhu ◽  
Qian Zhou ◽  
Yurong Qiao
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Heterogeneity ◽  
Spatial Correlation ◽  
Spatial Data ◽  
Central Area ◽  
Urban System ◽  
Entropy Method ◽  
Driving Factors ◽  
Spatial Data Analysis ◽  
Eastern Region ◽  
Urban Resilience

Urban resilience in the context of COVID-19 epidemic refers to the ability of an urban system to resist, absorb, adapt and recover from danger in time to hedge its impact when confronted with external shocks such as epidemic, which is also a capability that must be strengthened for urban development in the context of normal epidemic. Based on the multi-dimensional perspective, entropy method and exploratory spatial data analysis (ESDA) are used to analyze the spatiotemporal evolution characteristics of urban resilience of 281 cities of China from 2011 to 2018, and MGWR model is used to discuss the driving factors affecting the development of urban resilience. It is found that: (1) The urban resilience and sub-resilience show a continuous decline in time, with no obvious sign of convergence, while the spatial agglomeration effect shows an increasing trend year by year. (2) The spatial heterogeneity of urban resilience is significant, with obvious distribution characteristics of “high in east and low in west”. Urban resilience in the east, the central and the west are quite different in terms of development structure and spatial correlation. The eastern region is dominated by the “three-core driving mode”, and the urban resilience shows a significant positive spatial correlation; the central area is a “rectangular structure”, which is also spatially positively correlated; The western region is a “pyramid structure” with significant negative spatial correlation. (3) The spatial heterogeneity of the driving factors is significant, and they have different impact scales on the urban resilience development. The market capacity is the largest impact intensity, while the infrastructure investment is the least impact intensity. On this basis, this paper explores the ways to improve urban resilience in China from different aspects, such as market, technology, finance and government.

Democracy and Indirect Rule

Africa ◽  
1947 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 235-251 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. H. Ashton
Keyword(s):  
Social Organization ◽  
Political Development ◽  
Free Play ◽  
The Political ◽  
Present System ◽  
Democratic Institutions ◽  
Popular Participation ◽  
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Colonial Government ◽  
Indirect Rule

Opening ParagraphWhen discussing the political development of the African it is important to ask whether in his social organization there is a sufficiently strong element of popular participation in government to form a basis for modern democratic institutions. Another question is, to what extent the present system of colonial government (which for the sake of convenience, I shall call Indirect Rule, without analysing the various meanings and application of the term) gives free play to such democratic institutions as may already exist. In this article, an attempt is made to answer these two questions, so far as they apply to Basutoland and the Bechuanaland Protectorate. The position in the latter territory has recently been referred to by two writers when dealing with the second question and, as their findings were almost diametrically opposed, a detailed analysis of the position will not be out of place.

An Outline of the Native Conception of Education in Africa

Africa ◽  
1931 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 145-163 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. W. Hoernlé
Keyword(s):  
Social Organization ◽  
Educational Needs ◽  
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Education In Africa

Opening ParagraphIt may seem a very ambitious task to attempt even an outline of the native conception of education in so large an area as Africa, with its varying races and languages, its great variety in types of social organization. Nevertheless, there are certain fundamental aspects of these African cultures which are identical in them all, and which differ profoundly from those which form the foundation of our own educational needs. If we wish to understand and to help these African peoples, it is essential that we should learn to look at their culture and their world with their eyes, in order that we may know the basis of the faith by which they live, otherwise we run a grave risk of inadvertently destroying the foundations of social organization and belief which make life, not only tolerable, but possible at all.

Some Swazi Views on Land Tenure

Africa ◽  
1962 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 253-278 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. J. B. Hughes
Keyword(s):  
Social Control ◽  
Social Organization ◽  
Land Tenure ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Economic Change ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
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Opening ParagraphVirtually all sub-Saharan Africa is in the throes of rapid social and economic change. The recent fashion for meteorological allegories has merely served to stress the fact that these changes are also causing very considerable problems. The dilemma facing most administrations throughout the continent is that while much of the old way of life must inevitably disappear if the tribal groups involved are to hope to survive as viable populations in the modern world, this same process can, if it occurs too fast, threaten the whole social order and the systems of social control and social organization, which have hitherto bound them together as groups and governed the day-to-day lives of their members.

Changes in the Marriage System of the Okrika Ijo

Africa ◽  
1962 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kay Williamson
Keyword(s):  
Niger Delta ◽  
Eastern Region ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Marriage And Family ◽  
Family Organization ◽  
Eastern Group ◽  
The North ◽  
North Eastern ◽  
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Eastern Edge

Opening ParagraphIn this paper I shall present some data on the marriage and family organization of an Eastern Ijo town, and shall try to analyse changes in this organization against the background of broader social changes affecting the area.Okrika is the chief town of the Okrika section of the Ijo-speaking people of Nigeria. The Okrika dialect, with Kalahari and Bonny, falls into the North-Eastern group of dialects which are partially interintelligible with Brass-Nembe but not with the Central-Western dialects. The Ijo occupy the greater part of the Niger Delta. The Okrika section consists of eight towns and dependent villages on the extreme eastern edge of the Delta, where the saltwater creeks and mangrove swamps give place to the extensive dry ground of the mainland. Administratively, Okrika forms part of the Degema Province of the Eastern Region of Nigeria. With three other communities of the section, Okrika itself is sited on an island about half a mile long and a quarter broad.

!Kung Bushman Bands

Africa ◽  
1960 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 325-355 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lorna Marshall
Keyword(s):  
Social Organization ◽  
The People ◽  
The Family ◽  
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Opening ParagraphIn this paper I describe the band organization of the !Kung Bushmen. The !Kung word n//a besi was translated by the interpreters as ‘people who live together’. I use the word band for n//a besi, meaning by band, in this connexion, the grouping in !Kung social organization which is above the family grouping. It is a grouping precisely of the people who live together.

Some New Shrines of the Gold Coast and their Significance

Africa ◽  
1940 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 138-149 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. J. Field
Keyword(s):  
Social Organization ◽  
Gold Coast ◽  
Simple Type ◽  
Coastal Plains ◽  
The North ◽  
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Opening ParagraphThere is reason to believe that at one time the greater part of the Gold Coast had one simple type of social organization. Where destruction of this took place the disturbing influences spread from the North southwards. On the coastal plains are some areas which, for various reasons, were barely touched. In these areas the aboriginal type of social organization is preserved, more or less intact, to-day.

Coupling Coordination of Internet Development, Technology Innovation and Star Hotel Efficiency

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 48-64
Author(s):  
Wenqi Ruan ◽  
Yongquan Li
Keyword(s):  
High Efficiency ◽  
Technology Innovation ◽  
Evolutionary Relationship ◽  
Central Area ◽  
Western China ◽  
Scale Efficiency ◽  
Eastern Region ◽  
Development Technology ◽  
Low Efficiency ◽  
Internet Development

The research on the relationship between the three systems of internet development, technology innovation and star hotel efficiency for the development of the regional hotel industry provides a reference for this article. Based on the coupled coordination model, the authors analyze the evolutionary relationship between the three systems using the spatiotemporal dimension. The study draws the following conclusions. (1) In the 31 Chinese provinces examined, internet development and technological innovation have a high relevance, and there is a trend in these systems of decline from east to west in the three-ladder distribution. (2) The development trend of star hotel efficiency first rose and then fell, which shows its susceptibility to national policy. The spatial pattern reflects high efficiency in eastern and western China and low efficiency in the central area. (3) Among these characteristics, the comprehensive efficiency and pure technical efficiency of the star hotels in the eastern region are the highest, while the scale efficiency is highest in the western region. (4) The degree of coupled coordination maintains stability overall despite fluctuations, with the overall direction being toward healthy development. The system coupling coordinated development is complex and diverse, and the coupled coordination span is large, with the coupled coordination degree decreasing gradually from east to west in spatial distribution.

The Clans of Nangodi

Africa ◽  
1968 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 377-412 ◽  
Author(s):  
John M. Hunter
Keyword(s):  
Social Organization ◽  
Settlement Pattern ◽  
Northern Ghana ◽  
Spiritual Authority ◽  
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Opening ParagraphIn respect of its social organization and settlement pattern, Nangodi State is typical of extensive areas of northern Ghana. Three forms of authority are recognized: politico-military, kinship (or family) and spiritual. Politico-military authority is exercised through ten chiefdoms which are in turn divided into 28 sections. Kinship authority is represented by 64 agnatic lineages 57 of which are hierarchically grouped into seven major clans. Clan and lineage areas are complexly intermingled. Spiritual authority is wielded by 11 Nangodi earth priests and two outsiders over a total of 43 areas. Each of these three forms of authority in Nangodi State operates within separate and distinct geographical areas which are superposed but not co-terminous.

The Social Structure of the Nyakyusa: a Re-evaluation

Africa ◽  
1973 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 91-107 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael G. Mckenny
Keyword(s):  
Social Organization ◽  
A Priori ◽  
Field Work ◽  
Direct Result ◽  
Sociological Analysis ◽  
Value System ◽  
The Social ◽  
Per Se ◽  
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Western Tanzania

Opening ParagraphThe Nyakyusa of south-western Tanzania have received very substantial ethnographic coverage. Nonetheless there remain certain gaps in our knowledge of this society. The field-work by Dr. Godfrey Wilson and Professor Monica Wilson was done largely in the mid 1930s before structural-functional analysis had achieved its present refinement and was evidently influenced by Malinowski who was not himself known for a concern in sociological analysis per se. In these studies of the Nyakyusa, values, beliefs, and ritual were a main object of attention; they present Nyakyusa society as though it were a direct result of the Nyakyusa value system, although the actual workings of the society have been left rather obscure. It is presented as coherent, values and social organization reinforcing each other at every point. But internal evidence contradicts this picture, and on a priori grounds it may also be seen that there were several structural pressures towards incoherence, or rather, conflict between the actual development of social organization through time and those presumably timeless values reputed to maintain it.

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