Portrait of an Island

The Architecture and Material Culture of Gorée, Sénégal, 1758–1837

Inbunden, Engelska, 2015

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The once-famous trading center of GorÉe, SÉnÉgal, today lies in the busy harbor of the modern city of Dakar. From its beginnings as a modest outpost, GorÉe 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 GorÉe-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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2015-12-01
Mått152 x 229 x 34 mm
Vikt824 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieEarly Modern Cultural Studies
Antal sidor420
FörlagUniversity of Nebraska Press
ISBN9780803254138

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List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: An Interdisciplinary Stroll in Early Modern West Africa1. The Natural Landscape: The Island and Cartography2. The Built Landscape: Architecture and Urbanism3. The Elite: Patrons, Critics, and Fans4. The Middle: Occupational Groups5. The Bottom Rung: Servants and Slaves6. Things: Houses and Their ContentsConclusion: Building MemoriesAppendix of TablesNotesBibliographyIndex

"A very convincing portrait."-Michelle Moore Apotsos, CCA Reviews "A well-researched, well-documented, and well-argued piece of scholarship. . . . Hinchman makes an important contribution to the literature on the history of art and architecture, the history of the built environment, and slavery and the slave trade in West Africa, in general, and in Senegal, in particular."-Kalala Ngalamulume, H-France "Portrait of an Island is a valuable asset for scholars as well as for students of African colonial architecture, the material cultures of imperialism, and early modern histories of identity formation and cultural exchange."-Dwight Carey, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians “A major contribution to the understanding of early modern building traditions and lifestyles in West Africa, a literature that is missing in the larger architectural body of work.”-Nnamdi Elleh, author of African Architecture: Evolution and Transformation

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