Mining frontiers in Africa
Subtitle: anthropological and historical perspectives
By: edited by Katja Werthmann and Tilo Grätz ; with a preface by Günther Schlee
Series: Mainzer Beiträge zur Afrikaforschung -- Band 32; Mainzer Beiträge zur Afrika-Forschung -- Bd. 32.
Publisher: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Köln
Language: eng
Number of pages: 134
ISBN-13: 9783896458322
Copyright date: uuuu
Subjects: Mines and mineral resources; Mineral industries; Gold mines and mining
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Elusive frontiers : precolonial mining in Sub-Saharan Africa / Eugenia W. Herbert; title: Parallel mining frontiers in the Gold Coast and Asante in the late 19th and early 20th centuries / Raymond E. Dumett; title: Mining and the messiah : war and the masterless classes in Sierra Leone / Paul Richards; title: Diamonds and disputes : conflict and local power on the border between Congo and Angola (1990-2008) / Filip de Boeck; title: Gold mining in the Atakora mountains (Benin) : exchange relations in a volatile economic field / Tilo Grätz; title: Gold mining in Burkina Faso since the 1980s / Katja Werthmann.