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Product details
- ISBN 9780299096045
- Weight: 608g
- Dimensions: 154 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 31 Jan 2003
- Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Red Gold of Africa offers a comprehensive analysis of the history, archaeology, and ethnology of copper in sub-Saharan Africa. It introduces the ritual, social, and political aspects of copper working and consumption, deals with the copper trade and examines the roles it played in traditional sub-Saharan African society.
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.
