Swahili Port Cities: The Architecture of Elsewhere

On the Swahili coast of East Africa, monumental stone houses, tombs, and mosques mark the border zone...
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Author: Sandy Prita Meier
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Swahili Port Cities: The Architecture of Elsewhere by Meier, Sandy Prita

Swahili Port Cities: The Architecture of Elsewhere

$58.77

Swahili Port Cities: The Architecture of Elsewhere

$58.77
Author: Sandy Prita Meier
Format: Paperback
Language: English

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.



Author: Sandy Prita Meier
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 04/25/2016
Pages: 242
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.10w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780253019158

About the Author

Prita Meier is Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.


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