Author: Barrie ReynoldsPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719012419
Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
The Material Culture of the Peoples of the Gwembe Valley
Author: Barrie ReynoldsPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719012419
Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
The Material Culture of the Peoples of the Gwembe Valley
Author: Barrie ReynoldsThe Material Culture of the Peoples of the Gwembe Valley
Author: Fire-Eaters
Author: Mwelwa C. MusambachimePublisher: 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.
KARIBA STUDIES The Social Organization of the Gwembe Tonga
Author: Elizabeth ColsonPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN:
Category : Tsonga (African people)
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Material culture : critical concepts in the social sciences. Vol. 3 : Pt. 1
Author: Victor BuchliPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780415267229
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 416
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Chronicling Cultures
Author: Robert V. KemperPublisher: Rowman Altamira
ISBN: 0759116687
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Some field sites have hosted anthropologists for as long as half a century. Chronicling Cultures collects articles from principals of many of the longest and best-known anthropology projects from four continents—the Kung, Harvard Chiapas Project, Gwembe Valley, Tzintzuntzan, and Navajo among others. These projects have brought a new understanding of change and persistence in communities over time. They have forced researchers to develop methods of involving local communities in research, of using data over generations of scholars, and of resolving ethical issues of research versus advocacy. The projects range from individual scholars who return 'home' year after year to large-scale institutionalized projects involving many researchers and numerous studies. This volume will be an important addition to the literature on fieldwork, on the history of ethnology, and on ethnographers' role in their host cultures.
The Material Culture of the Peoples of the Grambe Valley
Author: Barrie ReynoldsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Tsonga (African people)
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Technological Choices
Author: Pierre LemonnierPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134522991
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 437
Book Description
Technological Choices applies the critical tools of archaeology to the subject of technology and its impact on humankind throughout the ages. An examination of the challenges technological innovations present to various cultures, Technological Choices asserts that in any society, such choices are made on the basis of cultural values and social relations, rather than on the inherent benefits in technology itself. Of course, this revolutionary viewpoint has critical implications for contemporary Western societies. Based on case studies covering a wide range of chronologies and geographies, Technological Choices moves rapidly from Neolithic Europe to the modern industrial age, stopping on the way to examine the tribes of Papua, New Guinea, rural Indian and North African societies as well as several European peasant communities. The techniques studied range from the manufacture of stone implements to the development of high-tech transportation devices. With its breadth of subject matter and multidisciplinary approach, Technological Choices offers new insight into the interrelationship between technology and society. Also unprecedented is the book's emphasis on the functional aspects of material culture.
The Importance and Values of Wild Plants and Animals in Africa
Author: John Benjamin SalePublisher: IUCN
ISBN: 2880325021
Category : Biology, Economic
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description