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Swahili port cities : the architecture of elsewhere / Prita Meier.
Fine Arts Library NA2543.S6 M48 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Meier, Prita, author.
- Series:
- African expressive cultures
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Architecture and society--Africa, East.
- Architecture and society.
- Stone buildings--Africa, East.
- Stone buildings.
- Port cities--Africa, East.
- Port cities.
- Islamic architecture--Africa, East.
- Islamic architecture.
- Africa, East.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 230 pages : illustrations, plans ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Bloomington ; Indianapolis : Indiana University Press, [2016]
- 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. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Introduction: the place in-between
- Difference set in stone: place and race in Mombasa
- A "curious" minaret: sacred place and the politics of Islam
- Architecture out of place: the politics of style in Zanzibar
- At home in the world: living with transoceanic things
- Conclusion: trading places.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-220) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Martin and Margy Meyerson Endowment Fund for the Built Environment.
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780253019097
- 0253019095
- 9780253019158
- 025301915X
- OCLC:
- 920677075
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