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Architecture: 1400 to 1900: Africa

By: Odette Boya Resta
In: Cultural Sociology of the Middle East, Asia, & Africa: An Encyclopedia
Edited by: Andrea L. Stanton, Edward Ramsamy, Peter J. Seybolt & Carolyn M. Elliott
Subject:Sociology of Culture, Area Studies (general), Social & Cultural Anthropology
Keywords:Africa; architecture; Benin; churches; Ethiopia; Southern Africa; Zimbabwe

Africa has a long and varied architectural history. The pyramids of Egypt in north Africa built around 2200 B.C.E. and one of the world's earliest and most impressive human-made achievements are relatively well known, compared to examples of architecture from other ...

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  Resta, O. (2012). Architecture: 1400 to 1900: africa. In A. L. StantonE. Ramsamy, & P. J. Seybolt (Eds.), Cultural sociology of the Middle East, Asia, & Africa: An encyclopedia (Vol. 1, pp. II99-II101). SAGE Publications, Inc., https://www.doi.org/10.4135/9781452218458.n254
  
  Resta, Odette Boya. "Architecture: 1400 to 1900: Africa." In Cultural Sociology of the Middle East, Asia, & Africa: An Encyclopedia, edited by Stanton, Andrea L., Edward Ramsamy, and Peter J. Seybolt, II99-II101. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc., 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781452218458.n254.
  
  Resta, O. 2012. Architecture: 1400 to 1900: Africa. In: Andrea L. Stanton, Edward Ramsamy and Peter J. Seybolt Editors, 2012. Cultural Sociology of the Middle East, Asia, & Africa: An Encyclopedia, Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc. pp. II99-II101 Available at: <http://www.doi.org/10.4135/9781452218458.n254> [Accessed 13 Apr 2021].
  
  Resta, Odette Boya. "Architecture: 1400 to 1900: Africa." Cultural Sociology of the Middle East, Asia, & Africa: An Encyclopedia. Edited by Andrea L. StantonEdward Ramsamy and Peter J. Seybolt. Vol. 1. Thousand Oaks: SAGE Publications, Inc., 2012, pp. II99-II101. SAGE Knowledge. 13 Apr 2021, doi: http://www.doi.org/10.4135/9781452218458.n254.
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