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9780253211095

Iron Technology in East Africa

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  • ISBN13:

    9780253211095

  • ISBN10:

    0253211093

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1997-05-01
  • Publisher: Indiana Univ Pr

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Summary

The purpose of this study is to recuperate the history of African iron technology.

Author Biography

Peter R. Schmidt is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Florida, editor of The Culture and Technology of African Iron Production, and co-editor (with Roderick J. McIntosh) of Plundering Africa's Past.

Table of Contents

Preface ix
Remaking Knowledge about African Iron Technology
1(22)
Historical and Cultural Contexts: Excavating History, Myth, and Ritual
23(22)
Ethnoarchaeology and Experiment in Iron Technology
45(30)
Ethnoarchaeology and Bricolage: Engaging Iron Smelting
75(34)
A Technological Model of the Haya Process
109(19)
Comparative Models: Forging a History of Haya Iron Smelting
128(26)
Dynamic Models for an Archaeology of Iron Technology
154(36)
Models for the Interpretation of Space: Smelting and Forging
190(19)
An Archaeology of African Iron Symbolism
209(22)
Reading Ideology in the Archaeological Record
231(34)
A History of Landscape Transformation: Bringing the Past Up to the Present
265(24)
Appendix A 289(2)
Glossary 291(4)
Notes 295(10)
Bibliography 305(14)
Index 319

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