The blooms of Banjeli : technology and gender in African ironmaking / written by Carlyn Saltman, Eugenia Herbert and Candice Gaucher ; directed by Carlyn Saltman
Published
Watertown, MA : Documentary Educational Resources (DER), 1986
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
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