Format:
Online-Ressource (x, 208 p)
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ill., maps
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25 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2005 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0253341558
Content:
In this detailed history of domestic architecture in West Africa, Peter Mark shows how building styles are closely associated with social status and ethnic identity. Mark documents the ways in which local architecture was transformed by long-distance trade and complex social and cultural interactions between local Africans, African traders from the interior, and the Portuguese explorers and traders who settled in the Senegambia region. What came to be known as "Portuguese" style symbolized the wealth and
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-197) and index
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Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; ONE The Evolution of PortugueseŽ Identity: Luso-Africans on the Upper Guinea Coast from the 16th Century to the Early 19th C; TWO Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Architecture in the Gambia-Geba Region and the Articulation of Luso-African Ethnicity; THREE Reconstructing West African Architectural History: Images of Seventeenth-Century PortugueseŽ-Style Houses in Brazil; FOUR The People There Are Beginning to Take on English MannersŽ: Mixed Manners in Seventeenth- and Early-18th-Century Gambia
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FIVE Senegambia from the Mid-Eighteenth Century to the Mid-Nineteenth CenturySIX Casamance Architecture from 1850 to the Establishment of Colonial Administration; Conclusions and Observations; Notes; Bibliography; Index; About the Author
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780253341556
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe "Portuguese" Style and Luso-African Identity : Precolonial Senegambia, Sixteenth - Nineteenth Centuries
Language:
English
