TY  - BOOK
AU  - DeLancey,Mark Dike
TI  - Conquest and construction: palace architecture in northern Cameroon 
T2  - African history
SN  - 9789004316126
AV  - NA1599.C3 D45 2016
U1  - 728.82096711 23
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - Leiden, Boston
PB  - Brill
KW  - Palaces
KW  - Cameroon
KW  - History
KW  - Architecture
KW  - fast
KW  - Fula (African people)
KW  - Kings and rulers
KW  - Dwellings
KW  - Fulani Empire
KW  - Ngaoundéré (Cameroon)
KW  - Africa
KW  - Ngaoundéré
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Preliminary Material; Mark Dike DeLancey --; Introduction; Mark Dike DeLancey --; Architectural Form; Mark Dike DeLancey --; Political Symbolism; Mark Dike DeLancey --; Spatial Orientation; Mark Dike DeLancey --; Ritual Movement; Mark Dike DeLancey --; Secrecy; Mark Dike DeLancey --; Conclusion; Mark Dike DeLancey --; Bibliography; Mark Dike DeLancey --; Index; Mark Dike DeLancey; Available to subscribing member institutions only
N2  - 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
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004316126
ER  -