A Ritual Geology: Gold and Subterranean Knowledge in Savanna West Africa - Tapa blanda

D’Avignon, Robyn

 
9781478018476: A Ritual Geology: Gold and Subterranean Knowledge in Savanna West Africa
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ISBN 10: 147801847X ISBN 13: 9781478018476
Editorial: Duke University Press, 2022

Sinopsis

Set against the ongoing corporate enclosure of West Africa’s goldfields, A Ritual Geology tells the untold history of one of the world’s oldest indigenous gold mining industries: Francophone West Africa’s orpaillage. Establishing African miners as producers of subterranean knowledge, Robyn d’Avignon uncovers a dynamic "ritual geology" of techniques and cosmological engagements with the earth developed by agrarian residents of gold-bearing rocks in savanna West Africa. Colonial and corporate exploration geology in the region was built upon the ritual knowledge, gold discoveries, and skilled labor of African miners even as states racialized African mining as archaic, criminal, and pagan. Spanning the medieval and imperial past to the postcolonial present, d’Avignon weaves together long-term ethnographic and oral historical work in southeastern Senegal with archival and archeological evidence from Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Guinea, and Mali. A Ritual Geology introduces transnational geological formations as a new regional framework for African studies, environmental history, and anthropology.

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Robyn d’Avignon is Assistant Professor of History at New York University.

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Editorial
Duke University Press
Año de publicación
2022
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ISBN 10 
147801847X
ISBN 13 
9781478018476
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Número de páginas
324
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