Swahili Port Cities

Swahili Port Cities
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Publisher : Indiana University Press
Total Pages : 262
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ISBN-10 : 9780253019172
ISBN-13 : 0253019176
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Book Synopsis Swahili Port Cities by : Sandy Prita Meier

Download or read book Swahili Port Cities written by Sandy Prita Meier and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2016-04-25 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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