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_aGrätz, Tilo _eauthor |
| 245 | 0 | 0 | _aGold Panning Borders in West Africa |
| 260 | _c2004. | ||
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| 520 | _aThis article explores the pioneer frontier situation created by gold diggers in West Africa. Since the 1980s, a wave of gold digging and panning, linked to the development of new deposits or revival of old extraction sites, has provided the opportunity to observe the emergence of a culture of itinerant gold-digger camps. Depending on the state of resources, the gold-diggers and the associated traders move from site to site, continually establishing new camps, transporting and reproducing the standards and regulations of a particular community, adapting partly to local conditions. This type of frontier is characterised by rapid changes in the local economy, high spatial and social mobility of participants and often conflict-ridden relations gold-diggers have with the central government and neighbouring rural societies. The article also discusses the specific character of these frontiers of gold-exploitation in comparison with those associated with agrarian colonisation. | ||
| 690 | _agold-digging | ||
| 690 | _aresources | ||
| 690 | _aWest Africa | ||
| 690 | _apower | ||
| 690 | _amigration | ||
| 690 | _afrontiers | ||
| 690 | _amoral economy | ||
| 786 | 0 | _nAutrepart | o 30 | 2 | 2004-06-01 | p. 135-150 | 1278-3986 | |
| 856 | 4 | 1 | _uhttps://shs.cairn.info/journal-autrepart-2004-2-page-135?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080 |
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