Portuguese Style and Luso-African Identity

Peter Mark is Professor of Art History at Wesleyan University. He is author of The Wild Bull and the Sacred Forest and A Cultural, Economic, and Religious History of the Basse Casamance since 1500.

• Preliminary Table of Contents: AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. The Evolution of "Portuguese" Identity: Luso-Africans on the Upper Guinea Coast from the 16th to the Early 19th-Century2. Sixteenth and Seventeenth-Century Architecture in the Gambia-Geba Region and the Articulation of Luso-African Ethnicity3. Reconstructing West African Architectural History: Images of Seventeenth-Century "Portuguese" Style Houses in Brazil4. "The People There Are Beginning to Take on English Manners": Mixed Manners in Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth-Century Gambia5. Senegambia from the Mid-Eighteenth Century to the Mid-Nineteenth Century6. Casamance Architecture from 1850 to the Establishment of Colonial AdministrationConclusions and ObservationsNotesBibliographyIndex

". . . [an] innovative work . . . .[Mrak's] contribution contribution to architectural history and African studies . . .lies in his argument that identity is not a stable identifier based on fixed boundaries, but constitutes a continuously dynamic process."—International Journal of African Historical Studies