Iron, Gender, and Power: Rituals of Transformation in African Societies"[Herbert] has constructed a model of power relationships structured upon gender and age, and derived from male transformative processes, and in so doing has written a notable, and most enjoyable, book." —African History |
Contents
Techniques and Cosmology | 1 |
Those Who Play with Fire | 23 |
The Actors and the Artifacts | 29 |
Rituals of Transformation and Procreation | 63 |
Exclusions and Taboos | 78 |
The Smith and the Forge | 97 |
Ironmaking and Belief | 115 |
ix | 135 |
Of Forests and Furnaces Anvils and Antelopes | 164 |
Potters and Pots | 200 |
Anthropomorphism and the Genderization | 219 |
Reconstructions of Iron Smelting in Africa | 239 |