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Record Nr.

UNINA9910811740703321

Autore

Mark Peter <1948->

Titolo

"Portuguese" style and Luso-African identity : precolonial Senegambia, sixteenth-nineteenth centuries / / Peter Mark

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2002

ISBN

1-282-07187-4

0-253-10754-7

0-253-10955-8

9786612071874

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 208 pages) : illustrations, maps

Disciplina

728.0966

728/.37/08969066

Soggetti

Architecture, Domestic - Senegambia

Architecture, Portuguese colonial - Senegambia

Vernacular architecture - Senegambia

Miscegenation - Senegambia

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-197) and index.

Nota di contenuto

The evolution of "Portuguese" identity: Luso-Africans on the upper Guinea coast from the sixteenth century to the early nineteenth century -- Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century architecture in the Gambia-Geba region and the articulation of Luso-African ethnicity -- Reconstructing West African architectural history: images of seventeenth-century "Portuguese"-style houses in Brazil -- "The people there are beginning to take on English manners": mixed manners in seventeenth- and early-eighteenth-century Gambia -- Senegambia from the mid-eighteenth century to the mid-nineteenth century -- Casamance architecture from 1850 to the establishment of colonial administration.

Sommario/riassunto

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 how 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