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Record Nr.

UNINA9910480250303321

Autore

DeLancey Mark Dike <1973->

Titolo

Conquest and construction : palace architecture in northern Cameroon / / by Mark Dike DeLancey

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , [2016]

ISBN

90-04-31612-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (314 pages) : illustrations

Collana

African history ; ; v. 5

Disciplina

728.82096711

Soggetti

Palaces - Cameroon - History

Architecture - Cameroon - History

Architecture

Fula (African people)

Fula (African people) - Kings and rulers

Kings and rulers - Dwellings

Palaces

History

Electronic books.

Fulani Empire History

Ngaoundéré (Cameroon) Kings and rulers Dwellings History

Africa Fulani Empire

Cameroon

Cameroon Ngaoundéré

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material / Mark Dike DeLancey -- Introduction / Mark Dike DeLancey -- Architectural Form / Mark Dike DeLancey -- Political Symbolism / Mark Dike DeLancey -- Spatial Orientation / Mark Dike DeLancey -- Ritual Movement / Mark Dike DeLancey -- Secrecy / Mark Dike DeLancey -- Conclusion / Mark Dike DeLancey -- Bibliography / Mark Dike DeLancey -- Index / Mark Dike DeLancey.

Sommario/riassunto

In Conquest and Construction Mark Dike DeLancey investigates the palace architecture of northern Cameroon, a region that was conquered in the early nineteenth century by primarily semi-nomadic, pastoralist,



Muslim, Fulɓe forces and incorporated as the largest emirate of the Sokoto Caliphate. Palace architecture is considered first and foremost as political in nature, and therefore as responding not only to the needs and expectations of the conquerors, but also to those of the largely sedentary, agricultural, non-Muslim conquered peoples who constituted the majority population. In the process of reconciling the cultures of these various constituents, new architectural forms and local identities were constructed.