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Robyn D'Avignon, "A Ritual Geology: Gold and Subterranean Knowledge in Savanna West Africa" (Duke UP, 2022)

New Books in Anthropology

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The Peace Corps - A Transformational Life Experience in Senegal

I was an agriculture volunteer in southeastern Senegal. This is Senegal's poorest region. And furthest from the capital and other infrastructure. So it has historically been a place where people often migrated to find any sort of stable waged work. But very quickly, as in many global mining frontiers, it became clear that corporate mining today is a very important way to do that. It requires very few actual employed laborers beyond a very few number of skilled technicians.

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