| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 277 pages) : illustrations, map. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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African systems of thought
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African systems of thought.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-270) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Techniques and Cosmology -- pt. 1. Those Who Play with Fire: African Metallurgy as Epic Drama. 1. The Actors and the Artifacts. 2. Rituals of Transformation and Procreation. 3. Rituals of Transformation: Exclusions and Taboos. 4. The Smith and the Forge. 5. Ironmaking and Belief -- pt. 2. Symmetrics and Asymmetries: Power and Fertility. 6. Le Roi-Forgeron. 7. Of Forests and Furnaces, Anvils and Antelopes. 8. Potters and Pots. Conclusion: Anthropomorphism and the Genderization of Power -- Appendix: Reconstructions of Iron Smelting in Africa. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Industries -- Africa, Sub-Saharan.
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Industries, Prehistoric -- Africa, Sub-Saharan.
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Industries. |
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Sub-Saharan Africa. |
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Rites and ceremonies -- Africa, Sub-Saharan.
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Rites and ceremonies. |
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Iron industry and trade -- Africa, Sub-Saharan.
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Iron industry and trade. |
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Iron -- Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Folklore.
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Iron. |
| Genre/Form |
Folklore.
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Cosmology, African.
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Cosmology, African. |
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Power (Social sciences)
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Power (Social sciences) |
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Sex role -- Africa, Sub-Saharan.
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Sex role. |
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Electronic books.
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Gender roles. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Herbert, Eugenia W. Iron, gender, and power. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©1993 0253327334 (DLC) 93016102 (OCoLC)27382557 |
| ISBN |
0585019525 (electronic book) |
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9780585019529 (electronic book) |
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0253327334 |
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0253208335 |
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9780253327338 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780253208330 (paper ; alkaline paper) |
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