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Title The Blooms Of Banjeli: Technology and Gender in African Ironmaking / by Carlyn Saltman with Candice Gaucher and Eugenia Herbert.

Publication Info. [San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2014.

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Description 1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 29 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
digital
video file MPEG-4 Flash
Note Title from title frames.
Event Originally produced by Documentary Educational Resources in 1986.
Summary The Blooms of Banjeli documents research in Banjeli, Togo on iron-smelting technology, its rituals, and the sexual prohibitions surrounding it. Including rare historical footage from the same village in 1914, it provides a unique technological record of the traditional method of preparing a furnace to smelt iron.
System Details Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subject Bassari.
Metal-working.
Iron and steel industry.
Tribal and national groups.
Cultural identity.
Gender.
Added Author Saltman, Carlyn, author, film director.
Gaucher, Candice, author.
Herbert, Eugenia, author.
Kanopy (Firm)
In: Watertown, MA : Documentary Educational Resources (DER), 1986
Music No. 1048890 Kanopy