Hidden Bibliographic Details
| Varying Form of Title: | Gold and subterranean knowledge in Savannah West Africa
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| Other authors / contributors: | Duke University Press, publisher.
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| ISBN: | 9781478092674
147809267X
1478023074
9781478023074
9781478015833
9781478018476
1478015837
147801847X
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 16, 2022).
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| 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"--
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| Other form: | Print version: D'Avignon, Robyn, 1984- Ritual geology. Durham : Duke University Press, 2022 9781478015833 9781478018476
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| Standard no.: | 10.1215/9781478023074
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