Mining morals, muck and Akan gold in New York City

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2186774
AutoresJane Parish (0000-0001-7932-3571, Keele University, autor correspondente)
Ano2015
Volume38
Fascículo3-4
Páginas290-301
Data de publicação2015-10-02
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoAnthropology Southern Africa (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 2332-3264 • E-ISSN: 2332-3256
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/23323256.2015.1100520
OpenAlexW2279710117
IdiomaEN
Referências citadas29

Among Akan spirit preachers at shrines in New York, gold and gold weights are at the centre of the creation of new moral topographies in a fluid and contested context. In a get-rich-quick New York marketplace, the preachers appeal to an understanding of gold that is contained within Akan values and ethical codes surrounding economic responsibility and social obligation. Remaking Manhattan's ethical geographies from the standpoint of a transnational Akan morality, occult narratives offer a different reading that links the moral dirt of the landfill sites of Manhattan with that of the rivers and forests polluted by cyanide, sulphuric acid and other mining chemicals in Obuasi, Ghana, a centre of gold mining. The paper plots a map of muck and morals as shrine discourses about gold provide a critical commentary on the moral conventions of wealth creation, accumulation and desire among a diasporic community

Appeal · Archaeology · Context (archaeology · Dirt · Environmental ethics · Geography · Moral obligation · Morality · Muck · Obligation · Political science · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography · Ecology · History · Law · Mining and Resource Management · Philosophy