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Iron technology in East Africa symbolism, science, and archaeology

Peter R Schmidt (Peter Ridgway) 1942-

Bloomington Indiana University Press Oxford James Currey c1997

Localização: MAE - Museu Arqueologia e Etnologia (DT443.3.H39 S353i )(Acessar)

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Iron technology in East Africa symbolism, science, and archaeology
Autor: Peter R Schmidt (Peter Ridgway) 1942-
Assuntos: Haya (African people) -- Industries; Metal-work, Haya; Haya (African people) -- Social life and customs; Iron-works -- Tanzania -- History; Iron -- Tanzania -- Metallurgy; Smelting -- Tanzania -- History; FUNDIÇÃO (HISTÓRIA) -- TANZÂNIA; ETNOARQUEOLOGIA -- TANZÂNIA; TRABALHO EM METAL (HISTÓRIA) -- TANZÂNIA; FERRO (METALURGIA)(ARQUEOLOGIA) (ANTROPOLOGIA) -- TANZÂNIA; Ethnoarchaeology -- Tanzania; Eisenverarbeitung; Tanzania -- Antiquities
Notas: Includes bibliographical references (p. [305]-318) and index
Descrição: Remaking Knowledge about African Iron Technology -- Historical and Cultural Contexts: Excavating History, Myth, and Ritual -- Ethnoarchaeology and Experiment in Iron Technology -- Ethnoarchaeology and Bricolage: Engaging Iron Smelting -- A Technological Model of the Haya Process -- Comparative Models: Forging a History of Haya Iron Smelting -- Dynamic Models for an Archaeology of Iron Technology -- Models for the Interpretation of Space: Smelting and Forging -- An Archaeology of African Iron Symbolism -- Reading Ideology in the Archaeological Record -- A History of Landscape Transformation: Bringing the Past Up to the Present.
Peter R. Schmidt distills more than twenty years of research and scholarship into this major work on the history and culture of iron technology in East Africa from ancient times to the present. Although archaeologists have long held that ironmaking spread from a single point of origin in Europe, Schmidt shows that African iron smelting developed independently, based on the use of indigenous natural resources and local invention. Schmidt recounts the reenactment of traditional iron smelting by elders of the Haya people in northwestern Tanzania. Through analysis of the chemistry and metallurgy of the smelting process, he demonstrates the genius of African iron technology. The rich symbolism surrounding traditional methods of iron production sheds light on the history of iron technology and reveals its central cultural role
Editor: Bloomington Indiana University Press Oxford James Currey
Data de criação/publicação: c1997
Formato: xii, 328 p ill., maps 24 cm.
Idioma: Inglês

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Bloomington Indiana University Press Oxford James Currey c1997

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