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Myth, Ritual and Metallurgy in Ancient Greece and Recent Africa (Hardcover, New)
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Myth, Ritual and Metallurgy in Ancient Greece and Recent Africa (Hardcover, New)
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In this volume, first published in 2006, 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 demons,
which are only fragmentarily preserved and which have often been
equated to general types of smithing gods. Her comparison
demonstrates that these demons are more sophisticated and ritually
useful than has been previously acknowledged. This book provides
new insights into the position of technology in Greek myth.
Providing a new methodology for the study of Greek religion, which
uses comparative cultural material in a thoughtful and careful way,
it helps close the fifty-year gap between the social sciences and
Classical philology in the theoretical understanding and study of
technological systems.
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