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Author : Timothy F. Garrard,Musée Barbier-Mueller
Publisher : Te Neues Publishing Company
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Africa, West
ISBN : UOM:39015031851598
Author : Kathleen Bickford Berzock
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019-02-26
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780691182681
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 : Eugenia W. Herbert
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Art
ISBN : 0299096041
The classic history of copper working and use throughout Africa. Researched with a depth of scholarship that will leave future historians green with envy.
Author : Roman Grynberg,Fwasa K. Singogo
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783030659950
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 : Henry Meredith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1812
Category : Ashanti (African people)
ISBN : OXFORD:N10605852
Author : Timothy F. Garrard
Publisher : Prestel Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Gold jewelry
ISBN : 3791341197
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 : Thomas Baines
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : Africa, Southern
ISBN : UOM:39015019933590
Author : Robyn d'Avignon
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2022-07-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781478023074
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.
Author : Brodie Cruickshank
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1853
Category : Ghana
ISBN : HARVARD:32044024169724
Author : Raymond E. Dumett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Capitalism
ISBN : 0821411977
El Dorado in West Africa explores the first modern gold rush of Ghana in all its dimensions - land, labor, capital, traditional African mining, technology, transport, management, the clash of cultures, and colonial rule. The rich tapestry of events is textured with unexpected ironies and paradoxes. Professor Dumett tells the story of the expatriate-led gold boom of 1875-1900 against the background of colonial capitalism. Through the use of field interviews, he also brings to light the expansion of a parallel "African gold-mining frontier, " which outpaced the expatriate mining sector.
Author : Ekow Eshun
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307425010
At the age of thirty-three, Ekow Eshun—born in London to African-born parents—travels to Ghana in search of his roots. He goes from Accra, Ghana’s cosmopolitan capital city, to the storied slave forts of Elmina, and on to the historic warrior kingdom of Asante. During his journey, Eshun uncovers a long-held secret about his lineage that will compel him to question everything he knows about himself and where he comes from. From the London suburbs of his childhood to the twenty-first century African metropolis, Eshun’s is a moving chronicle of one man’s search for home, and of the pleasures and pitfalls of fashioning an identity in these vibrant contemporary worlds.
Author : Roland Oliver
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134571710
The core of the book is Oliver's account of his research travels throughout tropical Africa from the 1940s to the 1980s; his efforts to train and foster African graduate students to teach in African universities; his role in establishing conferences and journals to bring together the work of historians and archaeologists from Europe and Africa; his encounters with political and religious leaders, scholars, soldiers, and storytellers; and the political and economic upheavals of the continent that he witnessed.
Author : Tony Binns,Alan (St Mary'S University College) Lester,Etienne (Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa) Nel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781317880400
This is the first book to combine a discussion of post-apartheid development initiatives with an extended historical analysis of South Africa's dynamic race, class, gender and ethnic identities. Bringing together the research of an historical geographer and two development geographers, the book enables us to locate the post-apartheid transition in a broad historical and spatial perspective. Within this perspective, the limitations as well as the achievements of South Africa's current transformation are highlighted.
Author : Martin Meredith
Publisher : Pocket Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Diamond industry and trade
ISBN : 1416526374
Social sciences.
Author : Theodore Reunert
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Diamond mines and mining
ISBN : NYPL:33433089970754
