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A ritual geology : gold and subterranean knowledge in savanna West Africa
- Title
- A ritual geology : gold and subterranean knowledge in savanna West Africa / Robyn d'Avignon.
- Author
- D'Avignon, Robyn, 1984-
- Publication
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2022.
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- Description
- xviii, 304 pages : illustrations, maps; 23 cm
- 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"--
- Subject
- 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
- Ethnology
- Geology
- Gold miners
- Gold mines and mining
- Mines and mineral resources
- French-speaking Western Africa
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-294)and index.
- Contents
- Introduction. Geology and West African history -- A tale of two miners in Tinkoto, Senegal, 2014 -- A West African ritual geology, 800-1900 -- Making 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 -- Conclusion. Subterranean granaries.
- Call Number
- ReCAP 23-3142
- ISBN
- 9781478015833
- 1478015837
- LCCN
- 2021049254
- OCLC
- 1266896585
- Author
- D'Avignon, Robyn, 1984- author.
- Title
- A ritual geology : gold and subterranean knowledge in savanna West Africa / Robyn d'Avignon.
- Publisher
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2022.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-294)and index.
- Research Call Number
- ReCAP 23-3142