Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-197) 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.

Book Details

• Language: eng
• Physical Description: x, 208 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
• Edition Info: (alk. paper)

Subjects

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

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