{"id":17193,"date":"2011-10-22T18:00:26","date_gmt":"2011-10-22T18:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=17193"},"modified":"2011-10-22T18:02:45","modified_gmt":"2011-10-22T18:02:45","slug":"portuguese-style-and-luso-african-identity-precolonial-senegambia-sixteenth-nineteenth-centuries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=17193","title":{"rendered":"“Portuguese” Style and Luso-African Identity: Precolonial Senegambia, Sixteenth-Nineteenth Centuries"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Portuguese” Style and Luso-African Identity: Precolonial Senegambia, Sixteenth-Nineteenth Centuries<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Indiana University Press<\/a>
\n2002-11-14
\n224 pages
\n32 b&w photos, 2 maps, 1 index
\n6.125 x 9.25
\nISBN: 978-0-253-21552-9<\/p>\n

Peter Mark<\/a><\/strong>, Professor of Art History
\nWesleyan University<\/em><\/p>\n

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In this detailed history of domestic architecture in West Africa<\/a>, Peter Mark shows how building styles are closely associated with social status and ethnic identity. Mark documents the ways in which local architecture was transformed by long-distance trade and complex social and cultural interactions between local Africans, African traders from the interior, and the Portuguese explorers and traders who settled in the Senegambia<\/a> region. What came to be known as \u201cPortuguese\u201d style symbolized the wealth and power of Luso-Africans, who identified themselves as \u201cPortuguese\u201d so they could be distinguished from their African neighbors. They were traders, spoke Creole<\/a>, and practiced Christianity. But what did this mean? Drawing from travelers\u2019 accounts, maps, engravings, paintings, and photographs, Mark argues that both the style of \u201cPortuguese\u201d houses and the identity of those who lived in them were extremely fluid. \u201cPortuguese\u201d Style and Luso-African Identity sheds light on the dynamic relationship between identity formation, social change, and material culture in West Africa.<\/p>\n

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