Unstable Ground: The Lives, Deaths, and Afterlives of Gold in South Africa
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What has gold done to people? What has it made them do? The Witwatersrand in South Africa, once home to the world's richest goldfields, is today scattered with abandoned mines into which informal miners known as zama zamas venture in an illicit--often deadly--search for ore. Based on field research conducted across more than twenty-five years around these mines, Unstable Ground reveals the worlds that gold made possible--and gold's profound...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0231216114
ISBN13:9780231216111
Release Date:February 2025
Publisher:Columbia University Press
Length:640 Pages
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