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Culture and Technology of African Iron Production Book

Culture and Technology of African Iron Production
Culture and Technology of African Iron Production, An extraordinarily informative volume that examines the technical aspects of iron production in Africa, both prehistoric and recent, and the cultural modes of behavior surrounding iron working. . . . Science and cultural anthropology are blended into an , Culture and Technology of African Iron Production has a rating of 4 stars
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Culture and Technology of African Iron Production, An extraordinarily informative volume that examines the technical aspects of iron production in Africa, both prehistoric and recent, and the cultural modes of behavior surrounding iron working. . . . Science and cultural anthropology are blended into an , Culture and Technology of African Iron Production
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  • Culture and Technology of African Iron Production
  • Written by author Peter R. Schmidt
  • Published by University Press of Florida, 1996/04/30
  • "An extraordinarily informative volume that examines the technical aspects of iron production in Africa, both prehistoric and recent, and the cultural modes of behavior surrounding iron working. . . . Science and cultural anthropology are blended into an
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Preface
1 Cultural Representations of African Iron Production 1
2 How Old Is the Iron Age in Central Africa? 29
3 The Blooms of Banjeli: Technology and Gender in West African Iron Making 40
4 Fipa Ironworking and Its Technological Style 58
5 Reconfiguring the Barongo: Reproductive Symbolism and Reproduction among a Work Association of Iron Smelters 74
6 Competition and Change in Two Traditional African Iron Industries 128
7 Forging Symbolic Meaning in Zaire and Zimbabwe 145
8 Complex Iron Smelting and Prehistoric Culture in Tanzania 172
9 Actualistic Models for Interpretation of Two Early Iron Age Industrial Sites in Northwest Tanzania 186
10 Use of Preheated Air in Primitive Furnaces: Comment on Views of Avery and Schmidt 234
10 Use of Preheated Air in Ancient and Recent African Iron Smelting Furnaces: A Reply to Rehder 240
11 On Claims For "Advanced" Ironworking Technology in Precolonial Africa 247
12 Preheating: Practice or Illusion? 267
13 Technological History and Culture in Western Tanzania 277
Glossary 321
Contributors 325
Index 327


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