@article{f6e005dd578c4944b14a591fdc031c24,
title = "Ak-47S For The Ancestors",
author = "Dewey, {William J.}",
note = "Funding Information: 2. Much of the research for this article was carried out in Zimbabwe in 1983-84 and 1988. The 1983-4 fieldwork was supported by a Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Grant and done in cooperation with the National Museums of Zimbabwe and the University of Zimbabwe. The 1988 fieldwork was done as a Massachusetts Institute of Technology post-doctoral fellow with funding from the Getty Grant Program. For a more detailed analysis of Shona knives and axes, and the broader context of Shona art and religion see my dissertation (1991), which this article is partially abstracted ' from. Also see Dewey (1985) and Childs and Dewey (forthcoming). 3. See for example, Carl Gusta Widstrand, African Axes (1958) and Fischer and Manfred A. Zirngibl, African Weapons( 1978). 4. The exhibition catalogue of Peter Westerdijk, African Metal Implements. Weapons, Toolsa nd Regalia ( 1984) is a noteworthy example that has treated such 1. For an overview of the numerous see Dewey and Roberts 1993.",
year = "1994",
doi = "10.1163/157006694X00200",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "24",
pages = "358--374",
journal = "Journal of Religion in Africa",
issn = "0022-4200",
publisher = "Brill Academic Publishers",
number = "1-4",
}