Iron, gender, and power
Rituals of transformation in African societies
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 24200230 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Eugenia W Herbert |
| Year | 1993 |
| Pages | 277 |
| Publication date | 1993-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Iron, gender, and power (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Indiana University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| Open Library | OL1407657M |
| ISBN | 9780253208330 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 217 |
Examines African metallurgy and pottery from the concept of ritual, belief and taboo and discusses the gender implications of such a system.
Africa · Africa, Sub-Saharan · African Cosmology · Cosmologie africaine · Cosmology, African · Fer · Folklore · General · IJzerbereiding · Industrie et commerce · Industries · Industries, primitive · Iron · Iron industry and trade · Pouvoir (Sciences sociales) · Power (Social sciences) · Primitive Industries · Riten · rites and ceremonies · Rites et cérémonies · Rôle selon le sexe · Sekserol · Sex role · Social Science · sub-saharan · Sub-Saharan Africa
Archéologies et espaces parcourus
Women in Pre-colonial Africa
Ceramics in West Africa
Trivial pursuit? Interpreting San rock art in terms of the mystical bond between hunter and prey
Metamorfoses decoloniais”
Gender–age systems and social change
On the origin of the royal Kongo title ngangula
Change and continuity in metal technology
The Poison in the Ink Bottle
Sufurias cannot bring blessings
Early Iron Age Burials from Equatorial Guinea
A Technology of Multiple Smelting Furnaces per Termite Mound
Impressions of Banana Pseudostem in Iron Slag from Eastern Africa
African Women's History
As tecnologias derivadas da matriz africana no Brasil
God of war, worldly ruler, and craft specialists in the Meroitic Kingdom of Sudan
When knowledges meet
Say let it be spared from eyes for a ware cannot survive eyes
Keeping the dead at arm's length
Rethinking numismatics. The archaeology of coins
Life and technology in everyday life
Towards a critical interdisciplinarity? African history and the reconstruction of universal narratives
In Pots we Trust
The evolution of early medieval Moravian axe-shaped currency bars through the perspective of an archaeological experiment
Forging History
Knowledge, Know-how and Raw Material - The Production of Late Neolithic Flint Daggers in Scandinavia
Changing perceptions of West Africa's past
Child labour, agency and family dynamics
Early West African Metallurgies
Cairo to Cape
Iron sails the seas
The Social and Material Context of the Iron Age Blacksmith in North Norway
Inciteful language
Fuegos Sagrados
Rythmomimisme et gestuelle dansée
Restoring Identity to People and Place
Fieldwork, Orality, Text
Historians, are Archeologists Your Siblings
A Study of Iron Smelting at Lopanzo, Equateur Province, Zaıre
Direct thermoluminescence chronology for Early Iron Age smelting technology on the Gambaga Escarpment, Ghana
Bonfire II
Pastoralist iron production on the Laikipia Plateau, Kenya
When ceramic sociology meets material science
Forging networks and mixing ores
Households, Community, and Crafting at Kanono
Archaeology of Slavery in East Africa
An Identification Guide for Metallurgical Sites in Tanzania
Art, history, and gender
Jack of Two Trades, Master of Both
Wagar, Fertility and Phallic Stelae
Comparing Craft and Culinary Practice in Africa
Pots, Houses and Metal
South African Archaeology, Gender, and the African Renaissance
Tracing the Itineraries of Working Concepts across African History
Durkheim meets discourse
Tangling with text, hedging with hegemony
The Archaeology of Symbols
Archaeometallurgy
Fancy Objects’ in the British Iron Age
Jan Vansina (1929–2017)
Practical knowledge and politics of encounter along the Lower Falémé River, Senegambia ( c. AD 1500–1925)
The social and symbolic context of the royal potters of Buganda
A technological and anthropological study of iron production in Venda, Limpopo Province, South Africa
The Early Iron Metallurgy of Bassar, Togo
A furnace and associated ironworking remains at Munsa, Uganda
On the nature of daga houses, kraals, metallurgy and intra-settlement spatial organization of EIA settlements in southern Africa
The mobility of memory
Mandara Mountain basketry in continental context
Social constructionist approaches to the study of technology
Symbolism and the social contexts of iron production in Karagwe
The archaeology of African-European interaction
Cultures of infancy and capital accumulation in pre-urban Mesopotamia
Gender Inequality, Processes of Adaptation, and Female Local Initiatives in Cash Crop Production in Northern Tanzania
Fiction, Culture, and the Concept of a Person
Technology, transformation and symbolism
Heart and Soul
The Bloodstain
Myth Making and Making Metals
African Studies Keyword
Visions of Apes, Reflections on Change
Traditions of Invention in Equatorial Africa
Ancestors and Elders
Bura Funerary Urns
Archaeological Insights into Aesthetic Communities of Practice in the Western Volta Basin
Bamako's Woodcarvers as Pariahs of Cultural Heritage
Seclusion, Protection and Avoidance
The social context of iron forging on the Kenya coast
On Dancing and Fishing
Mobilizing the past
Fertility's Fires and Empty Wombs in Recent Africanist Writing
Ceramics in Africa
The C-Group People in Lower Nubia
Formal Religion
Iron and Iron Technology
The Archaeology and Ethnography of Central Africa
Women and Art in Africa
A History of African Women from Origins to 800 CE
A History of African Women from Origins to 800 CE
Metals and the Production and Reproduction of Society
Gender in the Prehistory of Sub‐Saharan Africa
| Unique citing works | 163 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 6,58 |
| Citation span | 1993 - 2025 (33) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 115 |