Presents a systematic, comprehensive and region-wide study of central African ironworkers as a distinct group.
Integrating material on culture and social history, Kriger provides detailed descriptions of the labour process and the items that the smiths produced.
North America: Heinemann
Rezensionen / Stimmen
Kriger presents a densely-argued analysis of ironworking in the forests and savannas of the Congo River basin ... Kriger has done a remarkable job in utilizing lexical data and a wide range of iron objects themselves as historical sources ... thrilling to discover the depth of information that could be mined from existing sources to vitalize our understanding of the mute objects in museum collections and archaeological assemblages. - -- Douglas E. Miller * AFRICAN STUDIES REVIEW * As a study of the relationship of production and consumption with status and power, however, Pride of Men opens new understandings of the economic and social conditions that once gave rise to the prestige and independent power of ironworkers in African cultures, not just in nineteenth-century Zaire but also - if we use her study as strong inference - when Bantu-speaking communities first began to produce iron in central and east Africa. - -- Peter R. Schmidt * JOURNAL OF AFRICAN HISTORY *
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Zielgruppe
Für höhere Schule und Studium
Für Beruf und Forschung
Produkt-Hinweis
Illustrationen
14 s/w Abbildungen, 4 s/w Zeichnungen
14 b/w, 4 line illus.
Maße
Höhe: 227 mm
Breite: 142 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-85255-632-0 (9780852556320)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Part 1 The work and the setting: African history, ironworking and the mystique of the blacksmith; iron production in central Africa - building a craft tradition, ca 600 BCE to 1920. Part 2 Social and econoic values of ironworking - regional patterns: smelting iron - fathers of the furnace; making and changing money - iron currencies; the work of the finishing forge. Part 3 Social and economic values of ironworking - localhistories: patronage and innovation in the Kubu kingdom; markets for prestige along the middle Zaire. Part 4 Ironworkers in west central African society: the blacksmith's mystique unveiled - ideology, identity and the social prominence of blacksmiths. Epilogue - colonial rule and the decline of a craft tradition.
