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Red Gold of Africa: Copper in Precolonial History and Culture

en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 dec 2002

The classic history of copper working and use throughout Africa
A finalist for the 1985 Herskovits Prize
First Paperback Edition

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780299096045
ISBN-10: 0299096041
Pagini: 438
Ilustrații: 40 b-w illus., 6 color illus.
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.71 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: University of Wisconsin Press
Colecția University of Wisconsin Press

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"Red Gold of Africa is researched with a depth of scholarship that will leave future historians green with envy. It is also written with a literary eloquence which makes each new idea a joy to savor. The judgements are made with humane detachment and cool humor to enhance their persuasive force. The book is a masterpiece."—Journal of African History

"Eugenia W. Herbert addresses the subject from a multidisciplinary perspective, examining technology, history, oral tradition, economics, symbolic anthropology, and archaeology."—American Historical Review

"Red Gold of Africa is a sensitive piece of scholarship, an important addition to the literature for those who seek understanding of culture through its material and technological rendition."—Technology and Culture

Notă biografică

Eugenia W. Herbert is the E. Nevius Rodman Professor of History Emeritus at Mount Holyoke College and book review editor of the African Studies Review. Among her recent publications are Iron, Gender, and Power: Rituals of Transformation in African Societies and Twilight on the Zambezi: Late Colonialism in Central Africa.

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