Mark, Peter, 1948-

"Portuguese" style and Luso-African identity precolonial Senegambia, sixteenth-nineteenth centuries / [electronic resource] : Peter Mark. - Bloomington, IN : Indiana University Press, c2002. - 1 online resource.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The evolution of "Portuguese" identity: Luso-Africans on the upper Guinea coast from the sixteenth century to the early nineteenth century -- Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century architecture in the Gambia-Geba region and the articulation of Luso-African ethnicity -- Reconstructing West African architectural history: images of seventeenth-century "Portuguese"-style houses in Brazil -- "The people there are beginning to take on English manners": mixed manners in seventeenth- and early-eighteenth-century Gambia -- Senegambia from the mid-eighteenth century to the mid-nineteenth century -- Casamance architecture from 1850 to the establishment of colonial administration.

9780253341556 9780253109552 (electronic bk.)


Architecture, Domestic--Senegambia.
Architecture, Portuguese Colonial--Senegambia.
Vernacular architecture--Senegambia.
Miscegenation--Senegambia.

NA7467.6.S4 / M37 2002