Tropes, materiality, and ritual embodiment of African iron smelting furnaces as human figures

Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 262-282

  Schmidt, Peter R ^a,b  

^a University of Florida ^*  (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Africa; Ethnoarchaeology; Iron smelting; Ritual embodiment; Tropes

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350003741     PISSN: 10725369     EISSN: 15737764     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10816-009-9065-0     Document Type: Article

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