Red Gold of Africa: Copper in Precolonial History and Culture

by Eugenia W. Herbert

Overview

The classic history of copper working and use throughout Africa
A finalist for the 1985 Herskovits Prize
First Paperback Edition

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780299096045
Publisher:	University of Wisconsin Press
Publication date:	01/01/2003
Series:	Copper in Precolonial History and Culture
Edition description:	1
Pages:	438
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Eugenia W. Herbert is the E. Nevius Rodman Professor of History Emeritus at Mount Holyoke College and book review editor of the African Studies Review. Among her recent publications are Iron, Gender, and Power: Rituals of Transformation in African Societies and Twilight on the Zambezi: Late Colonialism in Central Africa.

Editorial Reviews

"Red Gold of Africa is researched with a depth of scholarship that will leave future historians green with envy. It is also written with a literary eloquence which makes each new idea a joy to savor. The judgements are made with humane detachment and cool humor to enhance their persuasive force. The book is a masterpiece."—Journal of African History



"Eugenia W. Herbert addresses the subject from a multidisciplinary perspective, examining technology, history, oral tradition, economics, symbolic anthropology, and archaeology."—American Historical Review



"Red Gold of Africa is a sensitive piece of scholarship, an important addition to the literature for those who seek understanding of culture through its material and technological rendition."—Technology and Culture

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