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African Gold
Author | : Timothy F. Garrard |
Publsiher | : Prestel Publishing |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Gold jewelry |
ISBN | : 3791341197 |
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This volume catalogs the impressive gold collection held by the Gold Museum in Cape Town, South Africa. It illustrates and surveys an enormous range of ornamental objects from the Sahel and the central West African forest regions. The pieces date from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and include headdresses, rings, bracelets, necklaces, earrings, and items of royal regalia. Many are decorated with figurative motifs such as birds, fish, and fruit, symbols which refer to local proverbs. Magnificent displays of gold intended as demonstrations of a tribal chiefís power and prestige are still worn today in ceremonial occasions. Through his research in the area Timothy F. Garrard, the worldís foremost authority on goldsmith art from the African continent, became acquainted with goldsmith techniques as well as the system of bartering and weighing. His commentary offers a historical and cultural context through which to view the pieces. AUTHOR: Timothy F. Garrard (b. 1943-d.2007) was a historian, archaeologist and lawyer who lived in Bouake on the Ivory Coast. During his lifetime he published numerous studies on the metal arts of West Africa and served as guest curator at the Barbier-Mueller Museum in Geneva, Switzerland. ILLUSTRATIONS: 226 colour
African Gold
Author | : Roman Grynberg,Fwasa K. Singogo |
Publsiher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 494 |
Release | : 2021-04-22 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9783030659950 |
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The book explores the evolving economics of gold as a global commodity as well as the production and trade of gold in and from the African continent. The growth of gold as an increasingly important and diverse source of African wealth is examined, alongside the impact that the rise of China in the 21st century has had on the demand for gold. The volatility of the gold price has increased as a result of the dramatic decline of gold demand for manufacturing purposes. Gold is Africa’s second largest export after oil and is a perfect metaphor for a continent rich in resources while so much of its population lives in such dire poverty. The artisanal and small scale gold mining (ASGM) sector, is surprisingly widely perceived as being beneficial to the development of Africa despite its exploitation and dreadful health and environmental consequences. African Gold: Production, Trade and Economic Development considers policy issues regarding the gold mining sector, the economics of beneficiation, the retreat of jewelry manufacturing across the continent as well as ‘Africa’s golden future’. It is a relevant book for both academics and policymakers interested in Africa, natural resource, and development economics.
Caravans of Gold Fragments in Time
Author | : Kathleen Bickford Berzock |
Publsiher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 313 |
Release | : 2019-02-26 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780691182681 |
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Issued in conjunction with the exhibition Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time, held January 26, 2019-July 21, 2019, Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.
Ashanti Gold
Author | : Edward S. Ayensu |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105024222148 |
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Governing African Gold Mining
Author | : Ainsley Elbra |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 239 |
Release | : 2016-10-31 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9781137563545 |
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This book takes a fresh approach to the puzzle of sub-Saharan Africa’s resource curse. Moving beyond current scholarship’s state-centric approach, it presents cutting-edge evidence gathered through interviews with mining company executives and industry representatives to demonstrate that firms are actively controlling the regulation of the gold mining sector. It shows how large mining firms with significant private authority in South Africa, Ghana and Tanzania are able to engender rules and regulations that are acknowledged by other actors, and in some cases even adopted by the state. In doing so, it establishes that firms are co-governing Africa’s gold mining sector. By exploring the implications for resource-cursed states, this significant work argues that firm-led regulation can improve governance, but that many of these initiatives fail to address country/mine specific issues where there remains a role for the state in ensuring the benefits of mining flow to local communities. It will appeal to economists, political scientists, and policy-makers and practitioners working in the field of mining and extractives.
A Ritual Geology
Author | : Robyn d'Avignon |
Publsiher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2022-07-11 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781478023074 |
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Set against the ongoing corporate enclosure of West Africa’s goldfields, A Ritual Geology tells the untold history of one of the world’s oldest indigenous gold mining industries: Francophone West Africa’s orpaillage. Establishing African miners as producers of subterranean knowledge, Robyn d’Avignon uncovers a dynamic “ritual geology” of techniques and cosmological engagements with the earth developed by agrarian residents of gold-bearing rocks in savanna West Africa. Colonial and corporate exploration geology in the region was built upon the ritual knowledge, gold discoveries, and skilled labor of African miners even as states racialized African mining as archaic, criminal, and pagan. Spanning the medieval and imperial past to the postcolonial present, d’Avignon weaves together long-term ethnographic and oral historical work in southeastern Senegal with archival and archeological evidence from Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Guinea, and Mali. A Ritual Geology introduces transnational geological formations as a new regional framework for African studies, environmental history, and anthropology.
Power and Landscape in Atlantic West Africa
Author | : J. Cameron Monroe,Akinwumi Ogundiran |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 411 |
Release | : 2012-02-13 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781107009394 |
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"This volume applies insights drawn from the theories and methods of landscape archaeology to contribute to our understanding of the nature if West African societies in the Atlantic Era (17th-19th Centuries AD). The authors adopt a briad set of methods and approaches to tackle how the nature and structures of African political and social relations changed across regions in this period. This is only the second volume in a decade to focus on the archeology of this period in West Africa, and the first volume in sub-Saharan Africanist archeology to be focused in the recent past in oue sub-region of the continent from a coherent methodological and theoretical standpoint"--Provided by publisher.
Gold of Africa
Author | : Timothy F. Garrard,Musée Barbier-Mueller |
Publsiher | : Te Neues Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Africa, West |
ISBN | : UOM:39015031851598 |
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