Myth, ritual, and metallurgy in ancient Greece and recent Africa / Sandra Blakely.

Yer Numarası
A.IX/7248
ISBN
9780521855006 (hardback)
0521855004 (hardback)
9781107652392 (Paperback)
Dil Kodu
İngilizce
Basım Bildirimi
First paperback edition.
Yayın Bilgisi
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Fiziksel Niteleme
xiv, 328 sayfa : resim, çizim, harita ; 25 cm
Genel Not
İndeks s. 305-328.
Bibliyografi, vb. Notu
Bibliyografya s. 304-277.
Bibliyografik notlar s. 235-275.
İçindekiler Notu
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.
Özet, vb.
“In this volume, Sandra Blakely considers technological myths and rituals associated with ancient Greek daimones who made metal and African rituals in which iron plays a central role. Noting the rich semantic web of associations that has connected metallurgy to magic, birth, kingship, autochthony, and territorial possession in both Greek and African cultures, Blakely examines them together in order to cast light on the Greek daimones, which are only fragmentarily preserved and which have often been equated to general types of smithing gods. Her comparison demonstrates that these creatures are more sophisticated and ritually useful, and technology a more nuanced image in Greek myth, than has been previously acknowledged. Using comparative cultural material in a thoughtful and careful way, it helps create a common ground between classical studies and the social science for the study of religion and technology.” -- Arka kapak.