Portuguese Style and Luso-African Identity: Precolonial Senegambia, Sixteenth-Nineteenth Centuries

Book Description
Drawing from travelers' accounts, maps, engravings, paintings, and photographs, Peter Mark argues that both the style of "Portuguese" houses and the identity of those who lived in them were extremely fluid. "Portuguese" Style and Luso-African Identity sheds light on the dynamic relationship between identity formation, social change, and material culture in West Africa.

About the Author
Peter Mark is Professor of Art History and teaches in the History Department at Wesleyan University. He is author of Wild Bull and the Sacred Forest: Form, Meaning, and Change in Senegambian Initiation Masks; A Cultural, Economic, and Religious History of the Basse Casamance since 1500; and Africans in European Eyes: The Portrayal of Black Africans in 14th and 15th Century Europe.


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Author Biography: Peter Mark is Professor of Art History and teaches in the History Department at Wesleyan University. He is author of Wild Bull and the Sacred Forest: Form, Meaning, and Change in Senegambian Initiation Masks; A Cultural, Economic, and Religious History of the Basse Casamance since 1500; and Africans in European Eyes: The Portrayal of Black Africans in 14th and 15th Century Europe.



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