TY  - GEN
T1  - Fires of gold law, spirit, and sacrificial labor in Ghana
T2  - Atelier (Oakland, Calif.) ;
A1  - Coyle Rosen, Lauren
LA  - English
PP  - Oakland, California
PB  - University of California Press
YR  - 2020
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_on1120693598
AB  - "Fires of Gold is a powerful ethnography of the often shrouded cultural, legal, political, and spiritual forces governing the gold mining industry in Ghana, one of Africa's most celebrated democracies. Lauren Coyle Rosen argues that significant sources of power have arisen outside of the formal legal system to police, adjudicate, and navigate conflict in this theater of violence, destruction, and rebirth. These authorities, or shadow sovereigns, include the transnational mining company, collectivized artisanal miners, civil society advocacy groups, and significant religious figures and spiritual forces from African, Islamic, and Christian traditions. Often more salient than official bodies of government, the shadow sovereigns reveal a reconstitution of sovereign power-one that, in many ways, is generated by hidden dimensions of the legal system. Coyle Rosen also contends that spiritual forces are central in anchoring and animating shadow sovereigns as well as key forms of legal authority, economic value, and political contestation. This innovative book illuminates how the crucible of gold, itself governed by spirits, serves as a critical site for embodied struggles over the realignment of the classical philosophical triage: the city, the soul, and the sacred"--
OP  - 213
CN  - HD9536.G52 C69 2020eb
SN  - 9780520974739
SN  - 0520974735
SN  - 9780520343320
SN  - 0520343328
SN  - 0520343336
SN  - 9780520343337
KW  - Gold mines and mining : Political aspects : Ghana.
KW  - Gold mines and mining : Ghana : Religious aspects.
KW  - Ethnology : Ghana : Religious aspects.
KW  - Or : Mines et extraction : Aspect politique : Ghāna.
KW  - Or : Mines et extraction : Ghāna : Aspect religieux.
KW  - Ethnologie : Ghāna : Aspect religieux.
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE : Anthropology : General.
KW  - Ethnology : Religious aspects
KW  - Gold mines and mining : Political aspects
KW  - Ghana
KW  - Electronic books.
ER  -