Iron, Gender, and Power

Rituals of Transformation in African Societies

By: Eugenia W. Herbert

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Paperback | 1 January 1994

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" Herbert] has constructed a model of power relationships structured upon gender and age, and derived from male transformative processes, and in so doing has written a notable, and most enjoyable, book." --African History

"Herbert examines with great care and thoroughness the relationships between gender and power and the rationales that give them social form. . . . Her] analytical ability is outstanding." --Patrick McNaughton

"This book is a well-written and essential study of the place of belief in African material culture." --International Journal of African Historical Studies

Herbert relates the beliefs and practices associated with iron working in African cultures to other transformative activities--chiefly investiture, hunting, and pottery making--to propose a gender/age-based theory of power.

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Preface
Introduction: Techniques and Cosmology	p. 1
Those Who Play with Fire: African Metallurgy as Epic Drama
The Actors and the Artifacts	p. 25
Rituals of Transformation and Procreation	p. 55
Rituals of Transformation: Exclusions and Taboos	p. 78
The Smith and the Forge	p. 97
Ironmaking and Belief	p. 115
Symmetrics and Asymmetries: Power and Fertility
Le Roi-Forgeron	p. 131
Of Forests and Furnaces, Anvils and Antelopes	p. 164
Potters and Pots	p. 200
Conclusion: Anthropomorphism and the Genderization of Power	p. 219
Appendix: Reconstructions of Iron Smelting in Africa	p. 239
Bibliography	p. 241
Index	p. 271
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