The Blooms Of Banjeli: Technology and Gender in African Ironmaking
(2014, original release: 1986)

Nonfiction

eVideo

Provider: Kanopy

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1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 29 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound

ISBN/ISSN
1048890
LANGUAGE
English
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The Blooms of Banjeli documents research in Banjeli, Togo on iron-smelting technology, its rituals, and the sexual prohibitions surrounding it. Including rare historical footage from the same village in 1914, it provides a unique technological record of the traditional method of preparing a furnace to smelt iron

Originally produced by Documentary Educational Resources in 1986

Mode of access: World Wide Web

In English

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