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Iron, Gender, and Power

Rituals of Transformation in African Societies

By: Eugenia W. Herbert

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Iron, Gender, and Power

Rituals of Transformation in African Societies

By: Eugenia W. Herbert

[Herbert] has constructed a model of power relationships structured upon gender and age, and derived from male transformative processes, and in so doing has written a notable, and most enjoyable, book." -- African History "Herbert examines with great care and thoroughness the relationships between gender and power and the rationales that give them social form.... [Her] analytical ability is outstanding." -- Patrick McNaughton "This book is a well-written and essential study of the place of belief in African material culture." -- International Journal of African Historical Studies Herbert relates the beliefs and practices associated with iron working in African cultures to other transformative activities -- chiefly investiture, hunting, and pottery making -- to propose a gender/age-based theory of power.

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Indiana University Press

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0253115965

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9780253115966

Red Gold of Africa

Copper in Precolonial History and Culture

By: Eugenia W. Herbert

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Copper in Precolonial History and Culture

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The classic history of copper working and use throughout Africa. Researched with a depth of scholarship that will leave future historians green with envy.

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Univ of Wisconsin Press

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0299096041

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9780299096045

Flora's Empire

British Gardens in India

By: Eugenia W. Herbert

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British Gardens in India

By: Eugenia W. Herbert

Like their penchant for clubs, cricket, and hunting, the planting of English gardens by the British in India reflected an understandable need on the part of expatriates to replicate home as much as possible in an alien environment. In Flora's Empire, Eugenia W. Herbert argues that more than simple nostalgia or homesickness lay at the root of this "garden imperialism," however. Drawing on a wealth of period illustrations and personal accounts, many of them little known, she traces the significance of gardens in the long history of British relations with the subcontinent. To British eyes, she demonstrates, India was an untamed land that needed the visible stamp of civilization that gardens in their many guises could convey. Colonial gardens changed over time, from the "garden houses" of eighteenth-century nabobs modeled on English country estates to the herbaceous borders, gravel walks, and well-trimmed lawns of Victorian civil servants. As the British extended their rule, they found that hill stations like Simla offered an ideal retreat from the unbearable heat of the plains and a place to coax English flowers into bloom. Furthermore, India was part of the global network of botanical exploration and collecting that gathered up the world's plants for transport to great imperial centers such as Kew. And it is through colonial gardens that one may track the evolution of imperial ideas of governance. Every Government House and Residency was carefully landscaped to reflect current ideals of an ordered society. At Independence in 1947 the British left behind a lasting legacy in their gardens, one still reflected in the design of parks and information technology campuses and in the horticultural practices of home gardeners who continue to send away to England for seeds.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812205057

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Iron, Gender, and Power

Rituals of Transformation in African Societies

By: Eugenia W. Herbert

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Red Gold of Africa

Copper in Precolonial History and Culture

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Copper in Precolonial History and Culture

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The classic history of copper working and use throughout Africa. Researched with a depth of scholarship that will leave future historians green with envy.

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Univ of Wisconsin Press

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Flora's Empire

British Gardens in India

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British Gardens in India

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Twilight on the Zambezi

Late Colonialism in Central Africa

By: E. Herbert

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Late Colonialism in Central Africa

By: E. Herbert

This book looks at Central Africa in the moment before the collapse of British colonial authority. Beginning with a lively study of Northern Rhodesia, the book moves outward in widening circles to the views of native councils, of colonial leaders, of African campaigners for independence, and ultimately of the Colonial Office in London. The result is a prismatic glimpse of the complexities of decolonization in Africa. Based on a rich assortment of unpublished documents, the book focuses on the key year of 1959, the year before the British government's actions that turned the tide toward independence. Rich in historical detail and conflicting perspectives, the book provides new insight into the complex particularities of local colonial history.

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Palgrave Macmillan

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031229431X

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9780312294311

Book's by Eugenia W. Herbert

Iron, Gender, and Power

Iron, Gender, and Power

Red Gold of Africa

Red Gold of Africa

Flora's Empire

Flora's Empire

Iron, Gender, and Power

Iron, Gender, and Power

Red Gold of Africa

Red Gold of Africa

Flora's Empire

Flora's Empire

Twilight on the Zambezi

Twilight on the Zambezi

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