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Yatenga by Peter B. Hammond
Yatenga by Peter B. Hammond
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Yatenga by Peter B. Hammond
Yatenga: Technology in the Culture of a West African Kingdom by Peter B. Hammond is a detailed anthropological study of the Mossi people living in the historic Yatenga kingdom of northern (present day) Burkina Faso. The book examines how a society's survival tools and agricultural methods directly shape its social, political, and religious institutions. Hammond demonstrates that because these manual tools require intense human cooperation, they dictate how families organize their labor and maintain kinship networks. This technological foundation extends into the political and spiritual realms, where the authority of local chiefs relies on managing scarce land resources, and religious rituals are timed to coordinate the community's planting and harvesting cycles. The book provides an analysis of a self-sustaining society, showing how technology and culture work together as a logical system for environmental survival.
Details
- Hardcover without dust jacket
- Condition: Good, the spine is lightly bleached, no notes/stamps
- 1st Edition, 1966
- Publishing House: The Free Press, New York
