African Gold

Author : Timothy F. Garrard
Publisher : Prestel Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Gold jewelry
ISBN : 3791341197

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African Gold by Timothy F. Garrard Pdf

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

Author : Roman Grynberg,Fwasa K. Singogo
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783030659950

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African Gold by Roman Grynberg,Fwasa K. Singogo Pdf

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.

Author : Kathleen Bickford Berzock
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-02-26
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780691182681

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Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time by Kathleen Bickford Berzock Pdf

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.

Author : Ainsley Elbra
Publisher : Springer
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137563545

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Governing African Gold Mining by Ainsley Elbra Pdf

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.

Author : Edward S. Ayensu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105024222148

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Ashanti Gold by Edward S. Ayensu Pdf

Author : Ifi Amadiume
Publisher : Zed Books
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1997-12
Category : History
ISBN : 1856495345

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Re-Inventing Africa by Ifi Amadiume Pdf

This book reveals how conventional anthropology has consistently imposed European ideas of the "natural" nuclear family, women as passive object, and class differences on a continent with a long history of women with power doing things differently. Amadiume argues for an end to anthropology and calls instead for a social history of Africa, by Africans.

Author : Timothy F. Garrard,Musée Barbier-Mueller
Publisher : Te Neues Publishing Company
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Africa, West
ISBN : UOM:39015031851598

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Gold of Africa by Timothy F. Garrard,Musée Barbier-Mueller Pdf

Author : J. Cameron Monroe,Akinwumi Ogundiran
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107009394

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Power and Landscape in Atlantic West Africa by J. Cameron Monroe,Akinwumi Ogundiran Pdf

"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.

Author : Henry Martin Moolman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1950
Category : South Africa
ISBN : STANFORD:36105070885590

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South African-American Survey by Henry Martin Moolman Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations. Subcommittee on International Resources, Food, and Energy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Government publications
ISBN : PURD:32754077259400

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Resource Development in South Africa and U.S. Policy by United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations. Subcommittee on International Resources, Food, and Energy Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Africa
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Apartheid
ISBN : MINN:31951D020945324

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U.S.-South African Relations by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Africa Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Economic sanctions, American
ISBN : UOM:39015013110203

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Legislative Options and United States Policy Toward South Africa by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 537 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004380189

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Landscapes, Sources and Intellectual Projects of the West African Past by Anonim Pdf

Landscapes, Sources and Intellectual Projects of the West African Past outlines new directions in the historiography of West Africa. Its chapters explore new trends across regional and disciplinary fields with a focus on how political conjunctures influence source production and circulation.

Author : Ainsley Elbra
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Electronic book
ISBN : OCLC:1066470905

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Governing African Gold Mining by Ainsley Elbra Pdf

Author : Michelle Martin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2004-03-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135949143

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Brown Gold by Michelle Martin Pdf

Brown Gold is a compelling history and analysis of African-American children's picturebooks from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. At the turn of the nineteenth century, good children's books about black life were hard to find — if, indeed, young black readers and their parents could even gain entry into the bookstores and libraries. But today, in the "Golden Age" of African-American children's picturebooks, one can find a wealth of titles ranging from Happy to be Nappy to Black is Brown is Tan. In this book, Michelle Martin explores how the genre has evolved from problematic early works such as Epaminondas that were rooted in minstrelsy and stereotype, through the civil rights movement, and onward to contemporary celebrations of blackness. She demonstrates the cultural importance of contemporary favorites through keen historical analysis — scrutinizing the longevity and proliferation of the Coontown series and Ten Little Niggers books, for example — that makes clear how few picturebooks existed in which black children could see themselves and their people positively represented even up until the 1960s. Martin also explores how children's authors and illustrators have addressed major issues in black life and history including racism, the civil rights movement, black feminism, major historical figures, religion, and slavery. Brown Gold adds new depth to the reader's understanding of African-American literature and culture, and illuminates how the round, dynamic characters in these children's novels, novellas, and picturebooks can put a face on the past, a face with which many contemporary readers can identify.