The social life of iron. A cross-cultural study of technological, symbolic, and social aspects of iron making

Anthropos

Volumn 97, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 35-54

  Haaland, Gunnar ^a   Haaland, Randi ^a   Rijal, Suman ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

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EID: 0036332161     PISSN: 02579774     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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8. Iron smelting in Fipa
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14. Iron, gender, and power
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17. Moral imagination
18. Women, fire, and dangerous things
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27. There was a certain man
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