Myth, ritual, and metallurgy in ancient Greece and recent Africa
The Greek daimones -- Iconography and metallurgy -- African iron: history, ritual, and investigation -- Birth, craft, and the daimones: the eretrian hymn to the daktyloi -- Gender and production: the Fipa -- The daimones: fertility and ritual performance -- Pharmaka and apotropaia: the daimones and...
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Tipo de documento: | Print Libro |
Lenguaje: | Inglés |
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Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
Publicado: |
Cambridge [u.a.]
Cambridge University Press
2006
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En: | Año: 2006 |
Edición: | 1. publ. |
(Cadenas de) Palabra clave estándar: | B
Greece (Antiquity)
/ Africa
/ Mythology
/ Demon
/ Metallurgy
/ Ritual
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Otras palabras clave: | B
Metallurgy Miscellanea
B Metallurgy Miscellanea B Thesis B Africa Religion B Greece Religion |
Acceso en línea: |
Autorenbiografie (Verlag) Índice Verlagsangaben (Verlag) |
Sumario: | The Greek daimones -- Iconography and metallurgy -- African iron: history, ritual, and investigation -- Birth, craft, and the daimones: the eretrian hymn to the daktyloi -- Gender and production: the Fipa -- The daimones: fertility and ritual performance -- Pharmaka and apotropaia: the daimones and medicine -- Iron and political power: Africa -- Bakongo investiture: kings, iron, and autochthones -- Daimones and political power: idaian daktyloi in the phoronis -- Pindar's telchines |
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Notas: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-304) and indexes |
ISBN: | 0521855004 |