[PDF] Red Gold Of Africa eBook

Author : Eugenia W. Herbert
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 38,71 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780299096045

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The classic history of copper working and use throughout Africa. Researched with a depth of scholarship that will leave future historians green with envy.

Author : Kathleen Bickford Berzock
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 50,20 MB
Release : 2019-02-26
Category : Art
ISBN : 069118268X

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Issued in conjunction with the exhibition Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time, held January 26, 2019-July 21, 2019, Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.

Author : Jennifer E. Telesca
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 13,93 MB
Release : 2020-04-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1452962332

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Illuminating the conditions for global governance to have precipitated the devastating decline of one of the ocean’s most majestic creatures The International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) is the world’s foremost organization for managing and conserving tunas, seabirds, turtles, and sharks traversing international waters. Founded by treaty in 1969, ICCAT stewards what has become under its tenure one of the planet’s most prominent endangered fish: the Atlantic bluefin tuna. Called “red gold” by industry insiders for the exorbitant price her ruby-colored flesh commands in the sushi economy, the giant bluefin tuna has crashed in size and number under ICCAT’s custodianship. With regulations to conserve these sea creatures in place for half a century, why have so many big bluefin tuna vanished from the Atlantic? In Red Gold, Jennifer E. Telesca offers unparalleled access to ICCAT to show that the institution has faithfully executed the task assigned it by international law: to fish as hard as possible to grow national economies. ICCAT manages the bluefin not to protect them but to secure export markets for commodity empires—and, as a result, has become complicit in their extermination. The decades of regulating fish as commodities have had disastrous consequences. Amid the mass extinction of all kinds of life today, Red Gold reacquaints the reader with the splendors of the giant bluefin tuna through vignettes that defy technoscientific and market rationales. Ultimately, this book shows, changing the way people value marine life must come not only from reforming ICCAT but from transforming the dominant culture that consents to this slaughter.

Author : Stewart Gordon
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 10,38 MB
Release : 2018-01-25
Category : History
ISBN : 0199093563

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Though travelling is lauded as a means of enriching our lives, the emphasis is generally on the destination rather than the journey. Yet, throughout human history, routes have ferried not just people but books, scrolls, and art, in addition to armies, ambassadorial entourages, slaves, brides, and pilgrims. The interaction of people on routes generated surprising innovations. Through myths, memoirs, and songs associated with twelve such great routes across five continents, historian Stewart Gordon shows how they captured the collective imagination and shaped the expectations of generations of would-be travellers.

Author : Ekow Eshun
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 30,81 MB
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0307425010

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At the age of thirty-three, Ekow Eshun—born in London to African-born parents—travels to Ghana in search of his roots. He goes from Accra, Ghana’s cosmopolitan capital city, to the storied slave forts of Elmina, and on to the historic warrior kingdom of Asante. During his journey, Eshun uncovers a long-held secret about his lineage that will compel him to question everything he knows about himself and where he comes from. From the London suburbs of his childhood to the twenty-first century African metropolis, Eshun’s is a moving chronicle of one man’s search for home, and of the pleasures and pitfalls of fashioning an identity in these vibrant contemporary worlds.

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Page : 312 pages
File Size : 42,55 MB
Release : 2023
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ISBN : 9781136965258

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First published in 1920, this resource was intended as a guide to the history and activities of a variety of commercial enterprises in the British West African colonies. It also reveals the characters and backgrounds of personalities in government, business and the professions.

Author : Eugenia W. Herbert
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 30,34 MB
Release : 1994-01-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253115966

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"[Herbert] has constructed a model of power relationships structured upon gender and age, and derived from male transformative processes, and in so doing has written a notable, and most enjoyable, book." -- African History "Herbert examines with great care and thoroughness the relationships between gender and power and the rationales that give them social form.... [Her] analytical ability is outstanding." -- Patrick McNaughton "This book is a well-written and essential study of the place of belief in African material culture." -- International Journal of African Historical Studies Herbert relates the beliefs and practices associated with iron working in African cultures to other transformative activities -- chiefly investiture, hunting, and pottery making -- to propose a gender/age-based theory of power.