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Conquest and construction : palace architecture in northern Cameroon / by Mark Dike DeLancey.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: African history (Brill Academic Publishers) ; v. 5.Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016]Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 298 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9789004316126
  • 9004316124
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Conquest and construction.DDC classification:
  • 728.82096711 23
LOC classification:
  • NA1599.C3 D45 2016
Online resources:
Contents:
Architectural form -- Political symbolism -- Spatial orientation -- Ritual movement -- Secrecy.
Summary: In Conquest and Construction Mark Dike DeLancey investigates the palace architecture of northern Cameroon, a region that was conquered in the early nineteenth century by primarily semi-nomadic, pastoralist, Muslim, Fulɓe forces and incorporated as the largest emirate of the Sokoto Caliphate. Palace architecture is considered first and foremost as political in nature, and therefore as responding not only to the needs and expectations of the conquerors, but also to those of the largely sedentary, agricultural, non-Muslim conquered peoples who constituted the majority population. In the process of reconciling the cultures of these various constituents, new architectural forms and local identities were constructed.
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Architectural form -- Political symbolism -- Spatial orientation -- Ritual movement -- Secrecy.

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In Conquest and Construction Mark Dike DeLancey investigates the palace architecture of northern Cameroon, a region that was conquered in the early nineteenth century by primarily semi-nomadic, pastoralist, Muslim, Fulɓe forces and incorporated as the largest emirate of the Sokoto Caliphate. Palace architecture is considered first and foremost as political in nature, and therefore as responding not only to the needs and expectations of the conquerors, but also to those of the largely sedentary, agricultural, non-Muslim conquered peoples who constituted the majority population. In the process of reconciling the cultures of these various constituents, new architectural forms and local identities were constructed.

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