Portrait of an Island - The Architecture and Material Culture of Goree, Senegal, 1758-1837 (Hardcover)

The once-famous trading center of Goree, Senegal, today lies in the busy harbor of the modern city of Dakar. From its beginnings as a modest outpost, Goree became one of the intersections linking African trading routes to the European Atlantic trade. Then as now, people of many nationalities poured into the island: Dutch, English, French, Portuguese, Tukulor, and Wolof. Trading parties brought with them gold, firewood, mirrors, books, and more. They built houses of various forms, using American lumber, French roof tiles, freshly cut straw, and pulverized seashells, and furnished them in a fashion as cosmopolitan as the city itself. A work of architectural history, Portrait of an Island explores the material culture and social relations of West Africa in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Multiple features of eighteenth-century Goree-its demographic diversity; the prominence of women leaders; the phenomenon of identities in flux; and the importance of fashion and international trade-articulate its place in the construction of an early global modernity. An examination of the built and natural landscape, Portrait of an Island deciphers the material culture involved in the ever-changing relationships among male, female, rich, poor, free, and slave.

General

Imprint:	University of Nebraska Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Early Modern Cultural Studies
Release date:	December 2015
Authors:	Mark Hinchman
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 34mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards / Cloth over boards
Pages:	420
ISBN-13:	978-0-8032-5413-8
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Architecture > Public buildings: civic, commercial, industrial, etc > General Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General Promotions
LSN:	0-8032-5413-X
Barcode:	9780803254138

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