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 Origins of Gold in the World
I think what interesting about the book is that it starts with a first chapter describing essentially what you talked about in the presentation of the Genesis. And then we work our way back to the present and I think this is such an interesting dynamic in the book. Could you maybe just expand a little bit on the necessity for you to go back a thousand years based on which you were experiencing seeing in the present? Yeah, no definitely and I also took me a while just since we're also talking about the guts of how a book is made to come up with that organization.
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