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Portuguese Style and Luso-African Identity: Precolonial Senegambia, Sixteenth-Nineteenth Centuries

Portuguese Style and Luso-African Identity: Precolonial Senegambia, Sixteenth-Nineteenth Centuries

Mark, Peter

Paperback

General ArchitectureArchitecture History

ISBN10: 0253215528
ISBN13: 9780253215529
Publisher: Indiana University Press (Ips)
Published: Dec 1 2002
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.78
Height: 0.69 Width: 5.94 Depth: 9.46
Language: English

In this detailed history of domestic architecture in West Africa, Peter Mark shows how building styles are closely associated with social status and ethnic identity. Mark documents the ways in which local architecture was transformed by long-distance trade and complex social and cultural interactions between local Africans, African traders from the interior, and the Portuguese explorers and traders who settled in the Senegambia region. What came to be known as Portuguese style symbolized the wealth and power of Luso-Africans, who identified themselves as Portuguese so they could be distinguished from their African neighbors. They were traders, spoke Creole, and practiced Christianity. But what did this mean? Drawing from travelers' accounts, maps, engravings, paintings, and photographs, Mark argues that both the style of Portuguese houses and the identity of those who lived in them were extremely fluid. Portuguese Style and Luso-African Identity sheds light on the dynamic relationship between identity formation, social change, and material culture in West Africa.

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