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

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

List of contents

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

About the author

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