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On the Swahili coast of East Africa, monumental stone houses, tombs, and mosques mark the border zone between the interior of the African continent and the Indian Ocean. Prita Meier explores this coastal environment and shows how an African mercantile society created a place of cosmopolitan longing....

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Meier, Prita (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bloomington ; Indianapolis : Indiana University Press, 2016.
Colección:African expressive cultures.
Temas:
Architecture and society > Africa, East.
Stone buildings > Africa, East.
Port cities > Africa, East.
Islamic architecture > Africa, East.
ARCHITECTURE > Adaptive Reuse & Renovation.
ARCHITECTURE > Buildings > Landmarks & Monuments.
ARCHITECTURE > Professional Practice.
ARCHITECTURE > Reference.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Architecture and society
Islamic architecture
Port cities
Stone buildings
Africa, East
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:On the Swahili coast of East Africa, monumental stone houses, tombs, and mosques mark the border zone between the interior of the African continent and the Indian Ocean. Prita Meier explores this coastal environment and shows how an African mercantile society created a place of cosmopolitan longing. Meier understands architecture as more than a way to remake local space. Rather, the architecture of this liminal zone was an expression of the desire of coastal inhabitants to belong to places beyond their homeports. Here architecture embodies modern ideas and social identities engendered by the encounter of Africans with others in the Indian Ocean world.
Descripción Física:1 online resource
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780253019172
0253019176

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