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The culture and technology of African iron production
- Title
- The culture and technology of African iron production / edited by Peter R. Schmidt.
- Publication
- Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c1996.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Schmidt, Peter R. (Peter Ridgway), 1942-
- Description
- xviii, 338 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Cultural representations of African iron production / Peter R. Schmidt -- How old is the iron age in Central Africa? / Pierre de Maret and G. Thiry -- The Blooms of Banjeli : technology and gender in West African iron making / Candice L. Goucher & Eugenia W. Herbert -- Fipa ironworking and its technological style / Randi Barndon -- Reconfiguring the Barongo : reproductive symbolism and reproduction among a work association of iron smelters / Peter R. Schmidt -- Competition and change in two traditional African iron industries / Nicholas David & Ian Robertson -- Forging symbolic meaning in Zaire and Zimbabwe / S. Terry Childs & William J. Dewey -- Complex iron smelting and prehistoric culture in Tanzania / Peter R. Schmidt & Donald H. Avery -- Actualistic models for interpretation of two early Iron Age industrial sites in northwest Tanzania / Peter R. Schmidt & S. Terry Childs -- Use of preheated air in primitive furnaces / J.E. Rehder -- Use of preheated air in ancient and recent African iron smelting furnaces / Donald H. Avery and Peter R. Schmidt -- On claims for "advanced" ironworking technology in precolonial Africa / David Killick -- Preheating : practice or illusion? / Donald H. Avery & Peter R. Schmidt -- Technological history and culture in western Tanzania / S. Terry Childs.
- Call Number
- Sc E 96-271
- ISBN
- 0813013844 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 95031930
- OCLC
- 32924009
- Title
- The culture and technology of African iron production / edited by Peter R. Schmidt.
- Imprint
- Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c1996.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Schmidt, Peter R. (Peter Ridgway), 1942-
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 96-271