From Cameroon to Paris: Mousgoum Architecture in and Out of Africa

by Steven Nelson

The kind of extraordinary domed house constructed by Chad and Cameroon's Mousgoum peoples has long held sway over the Western imagination. In fact, as Steven Nelson shows here, this prototypical beehive-shaped structure known as the teleukhas been cast as everything from a sign of authenticity to a tourist destination to a perfect fusion of form and function in an unselfconscious culture. And in this multifaceted history of the teleuk, thought...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226571831
• ISBN13: 9780226571836
• Release Date: March 2007
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.3" x 10.3"