Multiple levels of meaning and the tension of consciousness: How to interpret iron technology in Bantua Africa

Archaeological Dialogues

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 6-29

  Bekaert, Stefan ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Bantu Africa; Iron technology; Meaning; Phenomenology; Sakata; Structuralism

Indexed keywords

EID: 3042972903     PISSN: 13802038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s1380203800001148     Document Type: Article

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