Structural dynamics of spatial complexity at the ‘Palace of Gede’, Kenya

Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F49777513%3A23330%2F17%3A43931564" target="_blank" >RIV/49777513:23330/17:43931564 - isvavai.cz</a>

Výsledek na webu

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0067270X.2017.1283095" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0067270X.2017.1283095</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0067270X.2017.1283095" target="_blank" >10.1080/0067270X.2017.1283095</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Structural dynamics of spatial complexity at the ‘Palace of Gede’, Kenya

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

Using a set of structural and network analysis approaches, this paper focuses on the monumental structure known as ‘the Palace’ at the Swahili stone town site of Gede, located near the Kenya coast. Gede is one of many stone towns that flourished on the East African littoral from the thirteenth to the sixteenth centuries AD. The ‘Palace complex’ is the largest building on site and developed in at least three stages within the last 100–150 years of the site’s occupation. Its palatial function has so far been considered mainly in light of its monumentality and relative size, hence on the basis of its formal properties. This article utilises approaches that examine the spatial structure of the complex, offering an analysis of its spatial organisation by studying its inherent potential in terms of movement and visibility. The interpretation of the social logic of its development presented here is based on access and visibility analyses and on network analysis and thus connects methodologies developed in the 1980s with those that have started to be more widely discussed only within the last decade.The results reveal how the configuration and use of rooms, their place in the communication network within the building and their social potential changed through time.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Structural dynamics of spatial complexity at the ‘Palace of Gede’, Kenya

Popis výsledku anglicky

Using a set of structural and network analysis approaches, this paper focuses on the monumental structure known as ‘the Palace’ at the Swahili stone town site of Gede, located near the Kenya coast. Gede is one of many stone towns that flourished on the East African littoral from the thirteenth to the sixteenth centuries AD. The ‘Palace complex’ is the largest building on site and developed in at least three stages within the last 100–150 years of the site’s occupation. Its palatial function has so far been considered mainly in light of its monumentality and relative size, hence on the basis of its formal properties. This article utilises approaches that examine the spatial structure of the complex, offering an analysis of its spatial organisation by studying its inherent potential in terms of movement and visibility. The interpretation of the social logic of its development presented here is based on access and visibility analyses and on network analysis and thus connects methodologies developed in the 1980s with those that have started to be more widely discussed only within the last decade.The results reveal how the configuration and use of rooms, their place in the communication network within the building and their social potential changed through time.

Druh

J_SC - Článek v periodiku v databázi SCOPUS

CEP obor

—

OECD FORD obor

60102 - Archaeology

Projekt

<a href="/cs/project/EE2.3.20.0036" target="_blank" >EE2.3.20.0036: Strategie archeologického výzkumu v Evropě</a><br>

Návaznosti

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Rok uplatnění

2017

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa

ISSN

1945-5534

e-ISSN

—

Svazek periodika

52

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

1

Stát vydavatele periodika

GB - Spojené království Velké Británie a Severního Irska

Počet stran výsledku

29

Strana od-do

71-99

Kód UT WoS článku

000398082100005

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85011317372