Sandy Prita Meier

Swahili Port Cities (eBook, ePUB)

The Architecture of Elsewhere

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. April 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780253019172
• Artikelnr.: 44907423

Autorenporträt

Prita Meier is Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Place In-Between
1. Difference Set in Stone: Place and Race in Mombasa
2. A "Curious" Minaret: Sacred Place and the Politics of Islam
3. Architecture Out of Place: The Politics of Style in Zanzibar
4. At Home in the World: Living with Transoceanic Things
Conclusion: Trading Places
Notes
Bibliography
Index