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On the iron smelting technology of the Haya people of NW Tanzania. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Table of Contents

1. Remaking Knowledge about African Iron Technology
2. Historical and Cultural Contexts: Excavating History, Myth, and Ritual
3. Ethnoarchaeology and Experiment in Iron Technology
4. Ethnoarchaeology and Bricolage: Engaging Iron Smelting
5. A Technological Model of the Haya Process
6. Comparative Models: Forging a History of Haya Iron Smelting
7. Dynamic Models for an Archaeology of Iron Technology
8. Models for the Interpretation of Space: Smelting and Forging
9. An Archaeology of African Iron Symbolism
10. Reading Ideology in the Archaeological Record
11. A History of Landscape Transformation: Bringing the Past Up to the Present

Iron Technology in East Africa

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      Publisher: Indiana University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 22/06/1997
      ISBN13: 9780253211095, 978-0253211095
      ISBN10: 0253211093

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      On the iron smelting technology of the Haya people of NW Tanzania. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

      Table of Contents

      1. Remaking Knowledge about African Iron Technology
      2. Historical and Cultural Contexts: Excavating History, Myth, and Ritual
      3. Ethnoarchaeology and Experiment in Iron Technology
      4. Ethnoarchaeology and Bricolage: Engaging Iron Smelting
      5. A Technological Model of the Haya Process
      6. Comparative Models: Forging a History of Haya Iron Smelting
      7. Dynamic Models for an Archaeology of Iron Technology
      8. Models for the Interpretation of Space: Smelting and Forging
      9. An Archaeology of African Iron Symbolism
      10. Reading Ideology in the Archaeological Record
      11. A History of Landscape Transformation: Bringing the Past Up to the Present

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