Fires of gold law, spirit, and sacrificial labor in Ghana
"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 f...
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| Materialtyp: | Licensed eBooks |
| Språk: | engelska |
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Oakland, California
University of California Press
[2020]
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| Serie: | Atelier (Oakland, Calif.) ;
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| Länkar: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=2382179 |
Innehållsförteckning:
- Introduction
- Artisanal miners and sacrificial laws
- Spiritual sovereigns in the shadows
- Pray for the mine
- Fallen chiefs and divine violence
- Effigies, strikes, and courts
- Conclusion: out of the golden twilight?