Randi Barndon
Biographic Data
| ID | 3446401 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Randi Barndon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Randi |
| FAMILY NAME | Barndon |
| SIGNATURE | BARNDON R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bergen |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Sparks of Life
The author discusses fire as a concept, with an emphasis on traditional iron working and its links with bodily based experiences played out as material metaphors as well as mental conceptions. In East African iron using communities, iron smelting was cloaked in secrecy, seclusion and gendered sexual connotations. An elaborate use of bodily based metaphors guided the use of magic and medicines and created moral laws during periods of smelting. The…
Minneord Sæbjørg Walaker Nordeide (1956–2020)
Minneord Sæbjørg Walaker Nordeide (1956–2020)
Technology and Morality-Rituals in Iron Working among the Fipa and Pangwa Peoples in Southwestern Tanzania
Based on ethnographic fieldwork in the 1990s among the Pangwa and Fipa peoples in southwestern Tanzania, this discussion focuses on the locally constructed collective and individual perceptions of technological processes in iron smelting and how these are connected to imagination. Of particular interest is the largely neglected aspect of morality involved in the rituals surrounding iron working. It is argued that aspects of morality, as well as m…
A discussion of magic and medicines in East African iron working
Through an inquiry into locally constructed, pre‐industrial Tanzanian iron smelting practices this article looks beyond social representation of technologies and suggests a more nuanced perspective than the more familiar rituals of transformation and gendered procreative paradigm. It is demonstrated that among the Pangwa and Fipa peoples iron smelting symbolism was not merely a social representation of “something” else and of something of greater…
A discussion of magic and medicines in East African iron working
Through an inquiry into locally constructed, pre‐industrial Tanzanian iron smelting practices this article looks beyond social representation of technologies and suggests a more nuanced perspective than the more familiar rituals of transformation and gendered procreative paradigm. It is demonstrated that among the Pangwa and Fipa peoples iron smelting symbolism was not merely a social representation of “something” else and of something of greater…
Sparks of Life
The author discusses fire as a concept, with an emphasis on traditional iron working and its links with bodily based experiences played out as material metaphors as well as mental conceptions. In East African iron using communities, iron smelting was cloaked in secrecy, seclusion and gendered sexual connotations. An elaborate use of bodily based metaphors guided the use of magic and medicines and created moral laws during periods of smelting. The…
A discussion of magic and medicines in East African iron working
Through an inquiry into locally constructed, pre‐industrial Tanzanian iron smelting practices this article looks beyond social representation of technologies and suggests a more nuanced perspective than the more familiar rituals of transformation and gendered procreative paradigm. It is demonstrated that among the Pangwa and Fipa peoples iron smelting symbolism was not merely a social representation of “something” else and of something of greater…
Technology and Morality-Rituals in Iron Working among the Fipa and Pangwa Peoples in Southwestern Tanzania
Based on ethnographic fieldwork in the 1990s among the Pangwa and Fipa peoples in southwestern Tanzania, this discussion focuses on the locally constructed collective and individual perceptions of technological processes in iron smelting and how these are connected to imagination. Of particular interest is the largely neglected aspect of morality involved in the rituals surrounding iron working. It is argued that aspects of morality, as well as m…
Minneord Sæbjørg Walaker Nordeide (1956–2020)
Minneord Sæbjørg Walaker Nordeide (1956–2020)
Sparks of Life
The author discusses fire as a concept, with an emphasis on traditional iron working and its links with bodily based experiences played out as material metaphors as well as mental conceptions. In East African iron using communities, iron smelting was cloaked in secrecy, seclusion and gendered sexual connotations. An elaborate use of bodily based metaphors guided the use of magic and medicines and created moral laws during periods of smelting. The…
African history and culture analysis (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (2 works) · Archaeology and Rock Art Studies (2 works) · History (2 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works) · MAGIC (telescope (2 works)