Iron, Gender, and Power - Rituals of Transformation in African Societies

Informationen zum Autor EUGENIA W. HERBERT is E. Nevius Rodman Professor of African History at Mount Holyoke College and author of Red Gold of Africa: Copper in Precolonial History and Culture. Klappentext " -International Journal of African Historical Studies Herbert relates the beliefs and practices associated with iron working in African cultures to other transformative activities-chiefly investiture, hunting, and pottery making-to propose a gender/age-based theory of power. Zusammenfassung Explores the analogy between metallurgy and human reproduction as expressed in African beliefs about processes of transformation, gender, and power. This work appeals to readers interested in questions of technology, gender, and culture.

Product details

• Authors: Eugenia W. Herbert, Herbert Eugenia W
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.01.1994
• EAN: 9780253208330
• ISBN: 978-0-253-20833-0
• No. of pages: 278
• Series: African Systems of Thought; African Systems of Thought
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology