Main entry:

Prussin, Labelle, author.

Title & Author:

African nomadic architecture : space, place, and gender / Labelle Prussin.

Publication:

Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press : National Museum of African Art, [1995]
©1995

Description:

xxii, 245 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and color), maps (some color) ; 29 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-232) and index.
Foreword / Robert Farris Thompson -- Foreword / Sylvia H. Williams -- 1. The Tent in African History -- 2. Environment and Space -- 3. The Creative Process -- 4. The Hassaniya-Speaking Nomads: Tekna, Trarza, and Brakna / Peter A. Andrews and excerpts from Odette Du Puigaudeau in translation -- 5. The Tuareg: Kel Ahaggar and Kel Ferwan / based on excerpts from Johannes Nicolaisen and excerpts from Dominique Casajus in translation -- 6. The Tubu: Nomads in the Eastern Sahara -- 7. Mahria Tents: The Woman's Domain / Uta Holter -- 8. Rendille Habitation / Anders Grum -- 9. Handicrafts of the Somali Nomadic Women / Arlene Fullerton and Amina Adan -- 10. The Nomadic Aesthetic.

Summary:

"Combining extensive field research from West Africa to the Horn with findings culled from American and European museum archives, Labelle Prussin and the book's other contributors - including Peter A. Andrews, Uta Holter, Anders Grum, Amina H. Adan, and Arlene Fullerton - offer insights into the daily life of African nomads whose material culture is shaped by their desert environment. The more than two hundred diagrams, plans, and photographs in the text illustrate some of the regional variation in architectural style, extending from the tensile structures of West Africa to the mat-covered armature frames built by East African nomads. Two dozen color images highlight the most striking architectural examples and their surroundings."--Jacket.

ISBN:

(acid-free paper ; cloth)
1560983582
(acid-free paper ; paper)
1560983663
9781560987567 (pbk.)
1560987561 (pbk.)
9781560983583

Subject:

Tents Africa, Northeast.
Architecture, Domestic Africa, Northeast.
Vernacular architecture Africa, Northeast.
Tentes Afrique du Nord-Est.
Architecture domestique Afrique du Nord-Est.
Architecture vernaculaire Afrique du Nord-Est.
Architecture, Domestic.
Tents.
Vernacular architecture.
Architektur
Nomade
Volksarchitektur
Zelt
Zeltbau
Gerät
Kultur
Siedlungsökologie
Nomaden.
Woningen.
Northeast Africa.
Afrika
Sahara (Desert)

Holdings:

Location: Library main 115982
Call No.: NA7461.A1 P7 (ID:95-B1040)
Status: Available