Main entry:

Nelson, Steven, 1962- author.

Title & Author:

From Cameroon to Paris : Mousgoum architecture in & out of Africa / Steven Nelson.

Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2007]
©2017

Description:

xiv, 247 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Note on language and orthography -- Performing architecture -- Parabolic paradoxes -- A pineapple in Paris -- Present tense -- Afterword : destination Cameroon -- Principal people interviewed.

Summary:

The kind of domed house constructed by Chad and Cameroon's Mousgoum peoples has long held sway over Western imagination. This book shows that this beehive-shaped structure known as teleuk has been cast from a sign of authenticity to a tourist destination.

Resources:
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description
Table of contents only
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

9780226571836 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
0226571831 (cloth ; alkaline paper)

Subject:

Architecture, Domestic Cameroon.
Vernacular architecture Cameroon.
Musgu (African people) Dwellings Cameroon.
Musgu (African people) Ethnic identity.
Architecture domestique Cameroun.
Architecture vernaculaire Cameroun.
Mousgoum (Peuple d'Afrique) Habitations Cameroun.
Mousgoum (Peuple d'Afrique) Identité ethnique.
Architecture, Domestic.
Vernacular architecture.
Architektur
Mousgoum (peuple d'Afrique) Identité collective.
Mousgoum (peuple d'Afrique) Rites et cérémonies.
Cameroon.
Kamerun
Mousgoum.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 252997
Call No.: BIB 182332
Status: Available