Swahili Port Cities(English, Electronic book text, Meier Sandy Prita)

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Swahili Port Cities(English, Electronic book text, Meier Sandy Prita) is written by Meier Sandy Prita and published by Indiana University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0253019176 (ISBN 10) and 9780253019172 (ISBN 13).

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.