The Blooms Of Banjeli: Technology and Gender in African Ironmaking
(2014, original release: 1986)
Nonfiction
eVideo
Details
DESCRIPTION
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 29 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
ISBN/ISSN
1048890
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Title from title frames
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