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Conquest and construction : palace architecture in northern Cameroon / by Mark Dike DeLancey.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- DeLancey, Mark Dike, 1973- author.
- Series:
- African history (Brill Academic Publishers) ; v. 5.
- African history ; volume 5
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fula (African people)--Kings and rulers.
- History.
- Fula (African people).
- Architecture.
- Palaces.
- Fulani Empire--History.
- Fulani Empire.
- Dwellings--Kings and rulers--History--Cameroon--Ngaoundéré.
- Dwellings.
- Kings and rulers.
- Cameroon.
- Cameroon--Ngaoundéré.
- Palaces--Cameroon--History.
- Architecture--Cameroon--History.
- Fula (African people)--Cameroon--History.
- Fula (African people)--Kings and rulers--History.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvi, 298 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016]
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- In Conquest and Construction Mark Dike DeLancey investigates the palace architecture of northern Cameroon, a region that was conquered in the early nineteenth century by primarily semi-nomadic, pastoralist, Muslim, Fulbe forces and incorporated as the largest emirate of the Sokoto Caliphate. Palace architecture is considered first and foremost as political in nature, and therefore as responding not only to the needs and expectations of the conquerors, but also to those of the largely sedentary, agricultural, non-Muslim conquered peoples who constituted the majority population. In the process of reconciling the cultures of these various constituents, new architectural forms and local identities were constructed. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Architectural form
- Political symbolism
- Spatial orientation
- Ritual movement
- Secrecy.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 25, 2016).
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.
- Other Format:
- Print version: DeLancey, Mark Dike, 1973- Conquest and construction.
- ISBN:
- 9789004316126
- 9004316124
- OCLC:
- 948670521
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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