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Swahili Port Cities: The Architecture of Elsewhere (African Expressive Cultures)

Sandy Prita Meier

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Description: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.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Swahili Port Cities: The Architecture of Elsewhere (African Expressive Cultures). To get started finding Swahili Port Cities: The Architecture of Elsewhere (African Expressive Cultures), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: 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.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Swahili Port Cities: The Architecture of Elsewhere (African Expressive Cultures). To get started finding Swahili Port Cities: The Architecture of Elsewhere (African Expressive Cultures), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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