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

Peter Mark (Author)

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Paperback: 208 pages
Publisher: Indiana University Press (December 2002)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0253215528
ISBN-13: 978-0253215529
Product Dimensions: 2.4 x 1.5 x 0.2 cm
Shipping Weight: 358 g
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,872,761 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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"Peter Mark's book is a welcome addition to the growing literature on the Creole communities of West Africa."-Leeds African Studies Bulletin, No. 66, 2004

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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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During the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, Portugal established a trading presence along the Upper Guinea Coast, that part of the Atlantic coast extending from Senegal to Sierra Leone. Read the first page

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