African Gold
Title | African Gold PDF eBook |
Author | Timothy F. Garrard |
Publisher | Prestel Publishing |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Gold jewelry |
ISBN | 9783791341194 |
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
Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time
Title | Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time PDF eBook |
Author | Kathleen Bickford Berzock |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 313 |
Release | 2019-02-26 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 069118268X |
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
Title | Ashanti Gold PDF eBook |
Author | Edward S. Ayensu |
Publisher | |
Pages | 208 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN |
African Gold
Title | African Gold PDF eBook |
Author | Roman Grynberg |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Pages | 494 |
Release | 2021-04-22 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 303065995X |
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.
Gold of Africa
Title | Gold of Africa PDF eBook |
Author | Timothy F. Garrard |
Publisher | Te Neues Publishing Company |
Pages | 254 |
Release | 1989 |
Genre | Africa, West |
ISBN |
Labour in the South African Gold Mines 1911-1969
Title | Labour in the South African Gold Mines 1911-1969 PDF eBook |
Author | Francis Wilson |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 250 |
Release | 2011-03-03 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780521175098 |
A 1972 book on the determination of wages amongst miners in South Africa.
A Ritual Geology
Title | A Ritual Geology PDF eBook |
Author | Robyn d'Avignon |
Publisher | Duke University Press |
Pages | 225 |
Release | 2022-07-11 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1478023074 |
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.