A Ritual Geology : : Gold and Subterranean Knowledge in Savanna West Africa.

Robyn d'Avignon tells the history of West Africa's centuries-old indigenous gold mining industries and its shared practices, prohibitions, and cosmological engagements.

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Place / Publishing House:Durham : : Duke University Press,, 2022.
©2022.
Year of Publication:2022
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (329 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Orthographic Notes
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction. Geology and West African History
  • 1. A Tale of Two Miners in Tinkoto, Senegal, 2014
  • 2. West Africa's Ritual Geology, 800-1900
  • 3. Making Customary Mining in French West Africa
  • 4. Colonial Geology and African Gold Discoveries
  • 5. Mineral Mapping and the Global Cold War in Sénégal Oriental
  • 6. A West African Language of Subterranean Rights
  • 7. Race, Islam, and Ethnicity in the Pits
  • Conclusion. Subterranean Granaries
  • Glossary
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • A
  • B
  • C
  • E
  • F
  • G
  • H
  • I
  • J
  • K
  • L
  • M
  • N
  • O
  • P
  • R
  • S
  • T
  • U
  • V
  • W
  • Y
  • Z.