Swahili Port Cities

The Architecture of Elsewhere

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Sandy Prita Meier

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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.

Author Biography:

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

Release date Australia

April 25th, 2016

Author

Sandy Prita Meier

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Illustrations

80 Illustrations, black and white; 16 Halftones, color

Pages

242

Dimensions

3887x5817x20

ISBN-13

9780253019097

Product ID

24025077

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