Swahili Port Cities: The Architecture of Elsewhere

by Prita Meier

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 025301915X
• ISBN13: 9780253019158
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: Indiana University Press (Ips)
• Length: 242 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher