Meier, Prita, author.

Swahili port cities : the architecture of elsewhere / Prita Meier.

Bloomington ; Indianapolis : Indiana University Press, [2016]

xiv, 230 pages : illustrations, plans ; 24 cm.

African expressive cultures

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. Book jacket.

9780253019097 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0253019095 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780253019158 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
025301915X (pbk. ; alk. paper)
(ebook)
9780253019172
0253019176

Architecture and society Africa, East.
Stone buildings Africa, East.
Port cities Africa, East.
Islamic architecture Africa, East.
Kenya.
Tanzania.
Zanzibar.
ports.
architectural history.
Architecture and society.
Islamic architecture.
Port cities.
Stone buildings.
Architektur
Küste
Küstenstadt
Swahili
Africa, East.
Afrika Südost
Ostafrika

African expressive cultures.

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 307021
Cote: BIB 252563
Statut: Disponible