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

• Superior document: African history ; v. 5
• Author: DeLancey, Mark Dike, 1973-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2016]
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: African History 5.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (314 pages) :; illustrations.
• Notes: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

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.

Table of Contents

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.