Author: Mwelwa C. Musambachime
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1524594415
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
As late as the beginning of the nineteenth century, despite the many years of direct contact with European traders and the influx of European goods, most African societies still produced their own iron and its products, or obtained them from neighbouring communities through local trade. The quality of iron products was such that, despite competition from European imports, local iron production survived into the early twentieth century in some parts of the continent. The production process covered prospecting, mining, smelting, and forging. Different types of ore were available all over the continent and were extracted by shallow or alluvial mining. A variety of skills were required for building furnaces, producing charcoal, smelting, and forging iron into goods. Iron production was generally not an enclave activity but a process that fulfilled the totality of socio-economic needs. It also fit the gender division of labour within communities.
Fire-Eaters
Author: Mwelwa C. Musambachime
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1524594415
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
As late as the beginning of the nineteenth century, despite the many years of direct contact with European traders and the influx of European goods, most African societies still produced their own iron and its products, or obtained them from neighbouring communities through local trade. The quality of iron products was such that, despite competition from European imports, local iron production survived into the early twentieth century in some parts of the continent. The production process covered prospecting, mining, smelting, and forging. Different types of ore were available all over the continent and were extracted by shallow or alluvial mining. A variety of skills were required for building furnaces, producing charcoal, smelting, and forging iron into goods. Iron production was generally not an enclave activity but a process that fulfilled the totality of socio-economic needs. It also fit the gender division of labour within communities.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1524594415
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
As late as the beginning of the nineteenth century, despite the many years of direct contact with European traders and the influx of European goods, most African societies still produced their own iron and its products, or obtained them from neighbouring communities through local trade. The quality of iron products was such that, despite competition from European imports, local iron production survived into the early twentieth century in some parts of the continent. The production process covered prospecting, mining, smelting, and forging. Different types of ore were available all over the continent and were extracted by shallow or alluvial mining. A variety of skills were required for building furnaces, producing charcoal, smelting, and forging iron into goods. Iron production was generally not an enclave activity but a process that fulfilled the totality of socio-economic needs. It also fit the gender division of labour within communities.
Collecting Food, Cultivating People
Author: Kathryn Michelle De Luna
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300225164
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
A rich analysis of the complex dynamic between food collection and food production in the farming societies of precolonial south central Africa Engaging new linguistic evidence and reinterpreting published archaeological evidence, this sweeping study explores the place of bushcraft and agriculture in the precolonial history of south central Africa across nearly three millennia. Contrary to popular conceptions that place farming at the heart of political and social change, political innovation in precolonial African farming societies was actually contingent on developments in hunting, fishing, and foraging, as de Luna reveals.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300225164
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
A rich analysis of the complex dynamic between food collection and food production in the farming societies of precolonial south central Africa Engaging new linguistic evidence and reinterpreting published archaeological evidence, this sweeping study explores the place of bushcraft and agriculture in the precolonial history of south central Africa across nearly three millennia. Contrary to popular conceptions that place farming at the heart of political and social change, political innovation in precolonial African farming societies was actually contingent on developments in hunting, fishing, and foraging, as de Luna reveals.
The Seducer
Author: Jan Kjaerstad
Publisher: ABRAMS
ISBN: 1468316494
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 489
Book Description
In this “enormously accomplished and compelling novel,” a man crisscrosses Scandinavia to solve the mystery of his wife’s death—and of his own life (Paul Auster, bestselling author of 4 3 2 1). Jonas Wergeland, a famous TV documentary producer with an almost magical knack for infidelity, returns one evening from the World’s Fair in Seville to find his wife dead on the living room floor. What follows is a quest to find the killer, and an endlessly inventive look at the conditions that have brought Wergeland to this critical juncture in life. From his hairsbreadth escape from a ravenous polar bear while filming in Greenland to a near-death experience aboard a passenger ferry in the icy Baltic, the experiences that comprise the narrative of Wergeland’s life provide a fascinating portrait of a media icon at the crux of his journey as an artist.
Publisher: ABRAMS
ISBN: 1468316494
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 489
Book Description
In this “enormously accomplished and compelling novel,” a man crisscrosses Scandinavia to solve the mystery of his wife’s death—and of his own life (Paul Auster, bestselling author of 4 3 2 1). Jonas Wergeland, a famous TV documentary producer with an almost magical knack for infidelity, returns one evening from the World’s Fair in Seville to find his wife dead on the living room floor. What follows is a quest to find the killer, and an endlessly inventive look at the conditions that have brought Wergeland to this critical juncture in life. From his hairsbreadth escape from a ravenous polar bear while filming in Greenland to a near-death experience aboard a passenger ferry in the icy Baltic, the experiences that comprise the narrative of Wergeland’s life provide a fascinating portrait of a media icon at the crux of his journey as an artist.
The Ila-speaking Peoples of Northern Rhodesia
Author: Edwin William Smith
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes
Seven Tribes of British Central Africa
Author: Elizabeth Colson
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN:
Category : Anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN:
Category : Anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
The Wide World Magazine
In Remotest Barotseland
Author: Colin Harding
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Barotseland
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Barotseland
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices For 2006, Vol. 1, April 2008, 110-2 Joint Committee Print, S. Prt. 110-40, *
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2006
Author: United States. Dept. of State
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civil rights
Languages : en
Pages : 1908
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civil rights
Languages : en
Pages : 1908
Book Description