Fires of Gold: Law, Spirit, and Sacrificial Labor in Ghana Volume 4

by Lauren Coyle Rosen

Book Overview

Fires of Gold is a powerful ethnography of the often shrouded cultural, legal, political, and spiritual forces governing the gold mining industry in Ghana, one of Africa's most celebrated democracies. Lauren Coyle Rosen argues that significant sources of power have arisen outside of the formal legal system to police, adjudicate, and navigate conflict in this theater of violence, destruction, and rebirth. These authorities, or shadow sovereigns,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520343336
• ISBN13: 9780520343337
• Release Date: April 2020
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"