How does all this play out in architecture, built environment, and landscape?
House form, public/ritual architecture, earthen monumental architecture, elite residences, biwall/triwall structures, landscape & alignments
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Architectureframes the behaviors of everyday life and through cultural attribution, continuallyorients actors and shapes social and environmental relations.
great general sentence attesting to spatial archaeology
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speaks to the idea of access: non-central clans having a closer relationship to the outside (e.g. agriculturalists, pastoralists, maritime traders), central clans being closer to the the other clans to the outside (can tenously suggest that their purview is the other clans rather than the external environment?)
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1\1 Shanga, th e ,trchaeological evidence throws considerablt: li g llc Up OI\ t II ~ tl"n:: fercncc s. Th e enclos ure may have been seen as an area of ritu al pr OLccti~ 1I1fllr Ih~ markel, an area of neu t ra Lty tbat con ta ined both communal built1h l ~~1'1 we ll as a III( 1SCI" C . Indcl:J lhe Limh er ki()sk.~ nl: Sil allga co uld rn ark dl l'dLl pl ion of vpcn In\d l' w i, hi ll till" I' III ' I " ,~ I\ I · C
interesting- so the central plaza was kind of a trade hub, something to which access could be gained. They go on to write that traders would have needed to pass through the gates to the main clan area (which would have required sponsorship, as mentioned in one of the historical sources) in order to reach the trade area, which also offered a kind of spiritual protection (but to outsiders, posed spiritual/physical risks)
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ideneit
so identity is instead tied to geography, Muslim identity, building types?
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aungwana
Waungwana patrician group used house power to dominate trading activities on the East African coast
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