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"Portuguese" Style and Luso-African Identity: Precolonical Senegambia,
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Product Description
Drawing from travelers' accounts, maps, engravings, paintings, and photographs, Peter 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.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #3737478 in Books
- Published on: 2002-11-14
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Library Binding
- 224 pages
Editorial Reviews
Review
"... [an] innovative work....[Mrak's] contribution contribution to architectural history and African studies...lies in his argument that identity is not a stable identifier based on fixed boundaries, but constitutes a continuously dynamic process." -- International Journal of African Historical Studies
About the Author
Peter Mark is Professor of Art History and teaches in the History Department at Wesleyan University. He is author of Wild Bull and the Sacred Forest: Form, Meaning, and Change in Senegambian Initiation Masks; A Cultural, Economic, and Religious History of the Basse Casamance since 1500; and Africans in European Eyes: The Portrayal of Black Africans in 14th and 15th Century Europe.
