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Swahili Port Cities: The Architecture of Elsewhere (African Expressive Cultures)
Book 8 of 16: African Expressive CulturesLanguage: English
Published by Indiana University Press, 2016
ISBN 10: 025301915X ISBN 13: 9780253019158
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Swahili Port Cities
Book 8 of 16: African Expressive CulturesLanguage: English
Published by Indiana University Press, US, 2016
ISBN 10: 025301915X ISBN 13: 9780253019158
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Add to basketPaperback. Condition: New. 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 of coastal inhabitants to belong to places beyond their homeports. Here architecture embodies modern ideas and social identities engendered by the encounter of Africans with others in the Indian Ocean world.
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Swahili Port Cities : The Architecture of Elsewhere
Book 8 of 16: African Expressive CulturesLanguage: English
Published by Indiana University Press, 2016
ISBN 10: 025301915X ISBN 13: 9780253019158
Condition: New.
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Swahili Port Cities: The Architecture of Elsewhere (Paperback or Softback)
Book 8 of 16: African Expressive CulturesLanguage: English
Published by Indiana University Press 4/25/2016, 2016
ISBN 10: 025301915X ISBN 13: 9780253019158
Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. Swahili Port Cities: The Architecture of Elsewhere. Book.
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Swahili Port Cities: The Architecture of Elsewhere (African Expressive Cultures)
Book 8 of 16: African Expressive CulturesLanguage: English
Published by Indiana University Press, 2016
ISBN 10: 025301915X ISBN 13: 9780253019158
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Swahili Port Cities: The Architecture of Elsewhere (African Expressive Cultures)
Book 8 of 16: African Expressive CulturesLanguage: English
Published by Indiana University Press, 2016
ISBN 10: 025301915X ISBN 13: 9780253019158
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Swahili Port Cities : The Architecture of Elsewhere
Book 8 of 16: African Expressive CulturesLanguage: English
Published by Indiana University Press, 2016
ISBN 10: 025301915X ISBN 13: 9780253019158
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Swahili Port Cities
Book 8 of 16: African Expressive CulturesLanguage: English
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ISBN 10: 025301915X ISBN 13: 9780253019158
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Swahili Port Cities: The Architecture of Elsewhere
Book 8 of 16: African Expressive CulturesLanguage: English
Published by Indiana University Press, 2016
ISBN 10: 025301915X ISBN 13: 9780253019158
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Condition: New. Series: African Expressive Cultures. Num Pages: 248 pages, 16 color illus., 80 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 1HFG; AMX; HBJH; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 15. Weight in Grams: 318. . 2016. First Edition. Paperback. . . . .
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The Surface of Things: A History of Photography from the Swahili Coast
Language: English
Published by Princeton University Press, 2024
ISBN 10: 0691201870 ISBN 13: 9780691201870
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Swahili Port Cities: The Architecture of Elsewhere
Book 8 of 16: African Expressive CulturesLanguage: English
Published by Indiana University Press, 2016
ISBN 10: 025301915X ISBN 13: 9780253019158
Condition: New. Series: African Expressive Cultures. Num Pages: 248 pages, 16 color illus., 80 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 1HFG; AMX; HBJH; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 15. Weight in Grams: 318. . 2016. First Edition. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.
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Swahili Port Cities: The Architecture of Elsewhere
Book 8 of 16: African Expressive CulturesLanguage: English
Published by Indiana University Press, 2016
ISBN 10: 025301915X ISBN 13: 9780253019158
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The Surface of Things: A History of Photography from the Swahili Coast
Language: English
Published by Princeton University Press, 2024
ISBN 10: 0691201870 ISBN 13: 9780691201870
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Swahili Port Cities : The Architecture of Elsewhere
Book 8 of 16: African Expressive CulturesLanguage: English
Published by Indiana University Press, 2016
ISBN 10: 025301915X ISBN 13: 9780253019158
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Swahili Port Cities : The Architecture of Elsewhere
Book 8 of 16: African Expressive CulturesLanguage: English
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The Surface of Things
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Surface of Things : A History of Photography from the Swahili Coast
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The Surface of Things: A History of Photography from the Swahili Coast
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The Surface of Things
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Surface of Things : A History of Photography from the Swahili Coast
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The Surface of Things: A History of Photography from the Swahili Coast
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The Surface of Things
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ISBN 10: 0691201870 ISBN 13: 9780691201870
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Add to basketHardback. Condition: New. The first major history of photography from coastal East AfricaThe ports of the Swahili coast-Zanzibar and Mombasa among them-have long been dynamic centers of trade where diverse peoples, ideas, and materials converge. With the arrival of photography in the mid-nineteenth century, these predominantly Muslim coastal communities cultivated and transformed the medium. The Surface of Things examines the complex maritime dynamics that shaped the photography of coastal Africa, exploring the pleasure and power of beautiful things and the ways people and their pictures transcended the boundaries of the colonial world.Immersing readers in the globally interconnected networks of eastern Africa's port cities, Prita Meier demonstrates how photographs are not static images but mobile objects with remarkable shape-shifting qualities. Beginning with the earliest photographs introduced through seaborne commerce, the medium's integration into the cultural landscape was swift. Photographs functioned as objects of decoration, good taste, and cosmopolitanism, but were also used by local elites and foreigners to coerce and objectify enslaved people. Meier uncovers the oppressive agenda behind postcards and other popular images while describing African strategies of subversion and rebellion, revealing the performative authority that individuals exerted over their photographic likenesses.Featuring more than two hundred images published here for the first time, The Surface of Things repositions the continent's islands and archipelagos at the center of global photographic histories and shows how the people of the African Indian Ocean world experienced photography as a force of both oppression and freedom.
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SURFACE OF THINGS
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Published by Princeton University Press, 2024
ISBN 10: 0691201870 ISBN 13: 9780691201870
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The Surface of Things: A History of Photography from the Swahili Coast (eng)
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Surface of Things : A History of Photography from the Swahili Coast
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The Surface of Things: A History of Photography from the Swahili Coast
Language: English
Published by Princeton University Press, 2024
ISBN 10: 0691201870 ISBN 13: 9780691201870
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The Surface of Things
Language: English
Published by Princeton University Press, US, 2024
ISBN 10: 0691201870 ISBN 13: 9780691201870
Hardback. Condition: New. The first major history of photography from coastal East AfricaThe ports of the Swahili coast-Zanzibar and Mombasa among them-have long been dynamic centers of trade where diverse peoples, ideas, and materials converge. With the arrival of photography in the mid-nineteenth century, these predominantly Muslim coastal communities cultivated and transformed the medium. The Surface of Things examines the complex maritime dynamics that shaped the photography of coastal Africa, exploring the pleasure and power of beautiful things and the ways people and their pictures transcended the boundaries of the colonial world.Immersing readers in the globally interconnected networks of eastern Africa's port cities, Prita Meier demonstrates how photographs are not static images but mobile objects with remarkable shape-shifting qualities. Beginning with the earliest photographs introduced through seaborne commerce, the medium's integration into the cultural landscape was swift. Photographs functioned as objects of decoration, good taste, and cosmopolitanism, but were also used by local elites and foreigners to coerce and objectify enslaved people. Meier uncovers the oppressive agenda behind postcards and other popular images while describing African strategies of subversion and rebellion, revealing the performative authority that individuals exerted over their photographic likenesses.Featuring more than two hundred images published here for the first time, The Surface of Things repositions the continent's islands and archipelagos at the center of global photographic histories and shows how the people of the African Indian Ocean world experienced photography as a force of both oppression and freedom.
