Portrait of an island : the architecture and material culture of Gorée, Sénégal, 1758-1837 /

Portrait of an island : the architecture and material culture of Gorée, Sénégal, 1758-1837 /

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Author / Creator:Hinchman, Mark, author.
Imprint:Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2015]
©2015
Description:1 online resource
Language:English
Series:Early modern cultural studies
Early modern cultural studies (Lincoln, Neb.)
Subject:
Housing -- Senegal -- Gorée.
Architecture and society -- Senegal -- Gorée.
Architecture and society.
Buildings.
Housing.
Social conditions.
Gorée (Senegal) -- Buildings, structures, etc.
Gorée (Senegal) -- Social conditions -- 18th century.
Gorée (Senegal) -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
Senegal -- Gorée.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11908663
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ISBN:9780803280915
0803280912
9780803254138
080325413X
9780803280892
0803280890
9780803280908
0803280904
Digital file characteristics:data file
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Print version record.
Summary: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.
Other form:Print version: Hinchman, Mark. Portrait of an island 9780803254138

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