Swahili Port Cities

The Architecture of Elsewhere

Nonfiction, Art & Architecture, Architecture, History, Africa, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Anthropology
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Author: Prita Meier ISBN: 9780253019172
Publisher: Indiana University Press Publication: April 25, 2016
Imprint: Indiana University Press Language: English
Author: Prita Meier
ISBN: 9780253019172
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication: April 25, 2016
Imprint: Indiana University Press
Language: English

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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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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