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Portuguese Style and Luso-African Identity - Precolonial Senegambia, Sixteenth-Nineteenth Centuries

English · Paperback / Softback

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"Portuguese" Style and Luso-African Identity sheds light on the dynamic relationship between identity formation, social change, and material culture in West Africa.

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Preliminary Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. The Evolution of "Portuguese" Identity: Luso-Africans on the Upper Guinea Coast from the 16th to the Early 19th-Century

2. Sixteenth and Seventeenth-Century Architecture in the Gambia-Geba Region and the Articulation of Luso-African Ethnicity

3. Reconstructing West African Architectural History: Images of Seventeenth-Century "Portuguese" Style Houses in Brazil

4. "The People There Are Beginning to Take on English Manners": Mixed Manners in Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth-Century Gambia

5. Senegambia from the Mid-Eighteenth Century to the Mid-Nineteenth Century

6. Casamance Architecture from 1850 to the Establishment of Colonial Administration

Conclusions and Observations

Notes

Bibliography

Index


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Peter A. Mark

Summary

Presents domestic architecture as a marker of cultural identity in precolonial Africa

Product details

Authors Peter Mark, Peter A Mark, Peter A. Mark, Mark Peter a
Publisher Indiana University Press
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 01.12.2002
 
EAN 9780253215529
ISBN 978-0-253-21552-9
No. of pages 222
Dimensions 151 mm x 240 mm x 18 mm
Weight 354 g
Series Indiana University Press (IPS)
Subjects Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture
Humanities, art, music > Art > Interior design, design
Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories

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