In this detailed history of domestic architecture in West Africa, Peter Mark shows how building styles are closely associated with social status and ethnic identity. Mark documents the ways in which local architecture was transformed by long-distance trade and complex social and cultural interactions between local Africans, African traders from the interior, and the Portuguese explorers and traders who settled in the Senegambia region. What came to be known as "Portuguese" style symbolized the wealth and power of Luso-Africans, who identified themselves as "Portuguese" so they could be...
In this detailed history of domestic architecture in West Africa, Peter Mark shows how building styles are closely associated with social status an...
The study of the cattle-horned initiation masks of southern Senegal and the Gambia innovatively weaves together art history, history, and cultural anthropology to give a detailed view of Casamance cultures, as they have interacted and changed over the past two centuries. Based on seven field trips to West Africa and fifteen years of research in colonial archives and in museum collections from Dakar to Leipzig, Professor Mark's work presents a subtle interpretation of Casamance horned masquerades, their complex ritual symbolism, and the metaphysical concepts to which they allude. (The masks...
The study of the cattle-horned initiation masks of southern Senegal and the Gambia innovatively weaves together art history, history, and cultural ant...
This book traces the history of early seventeenth-century Portuguese Sephardic traders who settled in two communities on Senegal's Petite Cote. There, they lived as public Jews, under the spiritual guidance of a rabbi sent to them by the newly established Portuguese Jewish community in Amsterdam. In Senegal, the Jews were protected from agents of the Inquisition by local Muslim rulers. The Petite Cote communities included several Jews of mixed Portuguese-African heritage as well as African wives, offspring, and servants. The blade weapons trade was an important part of their commercial...
This book traces the history of early seventeenth-century Portuguese Sephardic traders who settled in two communities on Senegal's Petite Cote. There,...
Mente y fe. Su increible poder. En esta obra Peter Mark se profundiza en el aspecto metafisico del hombre, explicando el rol de la mente critica y el subconsciente, la fuerza de la fe y los principios que rigen el mentalismo. Nos guia de forma sencilla para comprender como los pensamientos se transforman en realidad, o sea, lo que somos en la vida y lo que tenemos. Inclusive, nos explica ligeramente como la ciencia moderna esta ya estudiando esa interrelacion entre la mente y la realidad, confirmando de esta forma, lo que ensena el mentalismo. Vale decir, la mente hace a la realidad lo que...
Mente y fe. Su increible poder. En esta obra Peter Mark se profundiza en el aspecto metafisico del hombre, explicando el rol de la mente critica y el ...
Mente y fe. Su increible poder. En esta obra Peter Mark se profundiza en el aspecto metafisico del hombre, explicando el rol de la mente critica y el subconsciente, la fuerza de la fe y los principios que rigen el mentalismo. Nos guia de forma sencilla para comprender como los pensamientos se transforman en realidad, o sea, lo que somos en la vida y lo que tenemos. Inclusive, nos explica ligeramente como la ciencia moderna esta ya estudiando esa interrelacion entre la mente y la realidad, confirmando de esta forma, lo que ensena el mentalismo. Vale decir, la mente hace a la realidad lo que...
Mente y fe. Su increible poder. En esta obra Peter Mark se profundiza en el aspecto metafisico del hombre, explicando el rol de la mente critica y el ...
