| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 304 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| 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 |
| Summary |
"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 goldfields of Guinea, Mali, Cote d'Ivoire and Burkina Faso from the medieval past into the present-day. Weaving together archival and ethnographic work among geologists, bureaucrats, artisanal miners, politicians, and ritual authorities, Robyn d'Avignon centers African orpailleurs as intellectual actors, upending narratives that treat miners in the global south as workers and victims of land alienation. Across these periods, A Ritual Geology presents sustained accounts of the central role of African mining expertise in geological exploration in colonial and post-colonial Africa and importantly shows the dependence of industrial mining on practices and knowledge developed by African orpailleurs"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 16, 2022) |
| Subject |
Gold mines and mining -- Africa, French-speaking West
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Gold miners -- Africa, French-speaking West
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Geology -- Africa, French-speaking West
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Mines and mineral resources -- Africa, French-speaking West
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Ethnology -- Africa, French-speaking West.
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Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural & Social.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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Ethnology.
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Geology.
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Gold miners.
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Gold mines and mining.
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Mines and mineral resources.
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French-speaking Western Africa.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Duke University Press, publisher.
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| LC no. |
2021049255 |
| ISBN |
9781478092674 |
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147809267X |
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1478023074 |
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9781478023074 |
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