Sandy Prita Meier

Swahili Port Cities

The Architecture of Elsewhere

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Prita Meier is Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. April 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9780253019097
• ISBN-10: 0253019095
• Artikelnr.: 42852234

Autorenporträt

Sandy Prita Meier

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Place In-Between
1. Difference Set in Stone: Place and Race in Mombasa
2. A "Curious" Minaret: Sacred Place and the Politics of Islam
3. Architecture Out of Place: The Politics of Style in Zanzibar
4. At Home in the World: Living with Transoceanic Things
Conclusion: Trading Places
Notes
Bibliography
Index