A ritual geology : gold and subterranean knowledge in Savannah West Africa /

"One of the first accounts of the politics of geological research in colonial and post-colonial Africa, Ritual Geology models a new regional approach to African history and ethnography centered on geology. Rooted in the goldfields of Senegal, A Ritual Geology carries the reader across the goldf...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: D'Avignon, Robyn, 1984- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2022.
Subjects:
Gold mines and mining > Africa, French-speaking West.
Gold miners > Africa, French-speaking West.
Geology > Africa, French-speaking West.
Mines and mineral resources > Africa, French-speaking West.
Ethnology > Africa, French-speaking West.
Ethnologie > Afrique occidentale francophone.
Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural & Social.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Ethnology.
Geology.
Gold miners.
Gold mines and mining.
Mines and mineral resources.
French-speaking Western Africa.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Geology and West African History
  • A Tale of Two Miners in Tinkoto, Senegal, 2014
  • A West African Ritual Geology. 800-1900
  • "Customary" Mining in French West Africa
  • Colonial Geology and African Gold Discoveries
  • Mineral Mapping and the Global Cold War in Sénégal Oriental
  • A West African Language of Subterranean Rights
  • Race, Islam, and Ethnicity in the Pits
  • Subterranean Granaries.

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