Peter Mark, Jose Da Silva Horta

Gebundenes Buch

The Forgotten Diaspora

Jewish Communities in West Africa and the Making of the Atlantic World

Beschreibung

This book traces the history of early seventeenth-century Portuguese Sephardic traders who settled in two communities on Senegal's Petit C te.

Autor

Peter Mark is Professor of Art History at Wesleyan University. He is the author of several books, including 'Portuguese' Style and Luso-African Identity: Precolonial Senegambia, Sixteenth to Nineteenth Centuries (2002) and The Wild Bull and the Sacred Forest: Form, Meaning and Change in Senegambian Initiation Masks of the Diola (Cambridge University Press, 1992), as well as multiple scholarly articles. Professor Mark has twice been an Alexander von Humboldt research Fellow at the Frobenius-Institut, Goethe Universität (Frankfurt). He has also held National Endowment for the Humanities and Fulbright Fellowships.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 609g
• ISBN-13: 9780521192866
• ISBN-10: 0521192862
• Artikelnr.: 32311706