Metals in Mandara mountains' society and culture
By: edited by Nicholas David
Publisher: Africa World Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Trenton, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9781592218899; 9781592218905
Subjects: Social life and customs; Iron industry and trade; Blacksmiths
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: List of contributors --; title: A note on transcription -- -- Setting the stage; title: Introduction  -- Nicholas David; title: The prehistory and early history of the northern Mandara mountains and surrounding plains  -- Scott Maceachern; title: My father René Gardi & Co.: Truadak and Rabash, Hans Eichenberger and Paul Hinderling  -- Bernhard Gardi -- Society and economy; title: Smith and society: patterns of articulation in the northern Mandara mountains  -- Nicholas David and Judy Sterner; title: Ricardo in the Mandara mountains: iron, comparative advantage, and specialization  -- Nicholas David; title: Competition and change in two traditional African iron industries  -- Nicholas David and Ian G. Robertson; title: Typology and society: hoes and knives among the Wandala and their neighbors  -- Ian Robertson -- History and ideology; title: The development of endogamy among smiths of the Mandara mountains eastern piedmont: myths, history and material evidence  -- Olivier Langlois; title: The wife of the village: understanding caste in the Mandara mountains  -- James H. Wade; title: The iron bride: blacksmith, iron, and femininity among the Kapsiki/Higi  -- Walther Van Beek; title: A touch of wildness: brass and brass casting in Kapsiki  -- Walter Van Beek; title: Afterword -- Jean-Pierre Warnier.