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View from the Village: Changing Settlement Patterns in Sisalaland, Northern Ghana

Introduction

It has become a commonplace to observe, as Labelle Prussin1 has done, that in West Africa (and Africa generally), a residence "is no more than the physical projection in space of the social organization of the family which inhabits it." The form, size, and configuration of compounds in rural and some urban settings tend to be elastic, as their builders respond to changes in the social and kin relations of the lineage group. Deaths, marriages (in and out) and the coming into adulthood of lineage members mean that there is a constant need for the expansion and reconfiguration of living space, leading Gabrilopolous et al.2 to conclude, with reference to the Tallensi of northern ...

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