Swahili Port Cities : The Architecture of Elsewhere /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Meier, Prita (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Indianapolis : Indiana University Press, 2016.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Stone buildings.
Port cities.
Islamic architecture.
Architecture and society.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
ARCHITECTURE > Reference.
ARCHITECTURE > Professional Practice.
ARCHITECTURE > Buildings > Landmarks & Monuments.
ARCHITECTURE > Adaptive Reuse & Renovation.
Islamic architecture > Africa, East.
Port cities > Africa, East.
Stone buildings > Africa, East.
Architecture and society > Africa, East.
Africa, East.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (242 pages).
ISBN:9780253019172

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