Prita Meier, Swahili Port Cities: The Architecture of Elsewhere

Prita Meier’s Swahili Port Cities: the Architecture of Elsewhere is a highly original and important contribution to scholarship on East Africa, and more widely for scholars interested in complicating how we understand the formation of global cities and border zone societies. It is not a conventiona...

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Argitaratua izan da:URI:https://journals.openedition.org/abe,
Egile nagusia: Longair, Sarah
Formatua: Article ou chapitre numérique
Hizkuntza:Anglais
Argitaratua: ABE Journal 2018
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Sarrera elektronikoa:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Gaia:Prita Meier’s Swahili Port Cities: the Architecture of Elsewhere is a highly original and important contribution to scholarship on East Africa, and more widely for scholars interested in complicating how we understand the formation of global cities and border zone societies. It is not a conventional architectural history, yet it places buildings, in particular the coral and lime stone constructions found on the Swahili coast, at its heart. Meier uses the “materiality of city life” to offer “...