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The Lives of Stone Tools gives voice to the Indigenous Gamo lithic practitioners of southern Ethiopia. Kathryn Weedman Arthur shows their perspective that stone tools are living beings with a life course. In so doing, Arthur subverts long-held Western perspectives on gender, skill, and lifeless status of inorganic matter.

Produktbeschreibung
The Lives of Stone Tools gives voice to the Indigenous Gamo lithic practitioners of southern Ethiopia. Kathryn Weedman Arthur shows their perspective that stone tools are living beings with a life course. In so doing, Arthur subverts long-held Western perspectives on gender, skill, and lifeless status of inorganic matter.
Autorenporträt
Kathryn Weedman Arthur is an associate professor of anthropology who for the last twenty years has been working with the Gamo in Ethiopia on issues of heritage, craft specialization, and gender. Her work with Gamo communities has been published in leading peer-reviewed journals such as Science, and she has received such prestigious awards as the Gordon R. Willey Prize and the GAD Prize for Exemplary Cross-Field Scholarship.