Swahili port cities
The Architecture of Elsewhere
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6041314 |
|---|---|
| Authors | E Pollard (0009-0006-3977-8209, British Institute in Eastern Africa, Nairobi, Kenya, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 52 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 124-126 |
| Publication date | 2017-01-02 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | REVIEW |
| Review of | Swahili Port Cities: The Architecture of Elsewhere, Sandy Prita Meier, 2016 |
| Venue | Azania Archaeological Research in Africa (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0067-270X • E-ISSN: 1945-5534 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/0067270x.2016.1254373 |
| OpenAlex | W2549461745 |
| Language | EN |
Prita Meier's interesting book concentrates on the stone-built structures of Zanzibar and especially Mombasa that are still part of daily practice. By focusing on the recent past, the author seeks
Archaeology · Electrical engineering · Geography · Linguistics · Port (circuit theory · Swahili · Architecture · Computer Science · Engineering · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · Philosophy
Gatekeeping beyond the state
Poetics of the Invisible, Poetics of Rubble
Public Aspects of Colonial Urbanism on the East African Coast
Precolonial Public Spaces in Towns on the East African Coast
Oxford Street, Accra
“Potentially the Pompeii of East Africa”
Swahili Worlds in Globalism
Clientage, debt, and the integrative orientation of non-elites on the East African Swahili coast
African Visual Cultures and Colonial Histories
Kanga Cloths at Vlisco
World on the Horizon
Cracks in the Dome
Fetishizing the Foot
Pith and power
Touching food
Painting in Turbulent Times
Archaeological and ethnographic perspectives on the meaning and consumption of glass beads in ancient Kilwa Kisiwani, southern Tanzania
Excremental mobilities and minimal technopolitics
Port infrastructures and the making of historical time in the Horn of Africa
Anticipation by redress
Sensory Synaesthesia
Provincializing Mecca? (1924–1969)
A century of urban planning for Zanzibar’s other side, 1923–2023
Coral Stone Architecture, Chinese Porcelain, and Indian Ocean Artifacts along the Swahili Coast
The Ends of the Indian Ocean
Diamonds, risk and insurance practices in British Africa, with an emphasis on the Gold Coast and Tanganyika
Ibadi Muslim schools in post-revolutionary Zanzibar
Names of Contemporary Wooden Boats of Coastal East Africa
Colonialism, heritage and conservation
Ship engravings at Kilepwa, Mida Creek, Kenya
Assembling Islamic practice in a Swahili urban landscape, 11th-16th centuries
| Highly cited | No |
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