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Paperback Swahili Port Cities: The Architecture of Elsewhere Book

ISBN: 025301915X

ISBN13: 9780253019158

Swahili Port Cities: The Architecture of Elsewhere

(Part of the African Expressive Cultures Series)

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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...

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