1983 Journal article Legacy File

The Role of Technology in the African past

Primary Investigators / Authors

Ralph A. Austen | Daniel Headrick

Document Abstract / Summary Overview

Austen Daniel Headrick The study of African technological history cannot bt pursued without first considering two fundamental problems. The most fundamental of all is the relationship between technology and the broader social process. It is quite obvious that the two are linked but it is not at all clear, even in a study focused on technology, where to begin the explanation of this relationship. Second, there is the more specific question of African \"backwardness\": why are certain kinds of technology which spread throughout Europe and Asia not found south of the Sahara before the colonial era? How can we relate this apparent lag to changes which did take place in African technology? What are the consequences of such a technological differential for the eventual integration of Africa into economic and political systems which include these external societies. [Note: this record was scraped from an archived (Wayback Machine) copy of the original site, which had stored the complete article text rather than just the abstract. It has been trimmed to an excerpt here; the full paper is available via the source link on this record.]

Resource Access Nodes

African Studies Review →

Technical Properties

Accession ID: https://www.jstor.org/stable/524168
Archival Collection: UKZN-IKS
Language Registry: English
Asset Extent / Duration: 23 pages
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Rights Management Attribution: Cambridge University Press
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Co-Authors & Contributors

Ralph A. Austen | Daniel Headrick creator

Taxonomy Classifications

🏷️ Journal article 🏷️ South Africa 🏷️ Africa 🏷️ agriculture 🏷️ Cambridge University Press 🏷️ Ralph A. Austen 🏷️ Daniel Headrick 🏷️ domesticated

Subject Keywords

# Technology , Africa , agriculture , domesticated

Geographic Spatial Coverage

📍 AFRICA
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