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Gens de l'or : mémoire des orpailleurs créoles du Maroni (Guyane)
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ISBN: 2259278108 Year: 2019 Publisher: Paris : Plon,

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Un regard poétique, rigoureux et inédit sur la "créolité" et l'ensemble du monde antillais au travers de l'étude des orpailleurs d'or de Guyane. Un témoignage sur un mode de vie disparu, conté avec amour et finesse. "Cet ouvrage c'est tout d'abord de l'ethnographie de grand cru. Mais en même temps, l'étude de Baj Strobel - rigoureuse, personnelle et poétique - jette un regard inédit et convaincant sur la « créolité » et l'ensemble du monde antillais. Par le détour de la forêt guyanaise, elle nous met en situation d'aborder l'essentiel de ces sociétés insulaires, à la fois soumises et résistantes, repliées sur elles-mêmes et ouvertes - à leur façon - au « Tout-Monde ». C'est le témoignage d'un mode de vie disparu, relaté avec amour et finesse. On y découvre tout une société nouvelle, minuscule, étrange et en fin de compte pleine de charmes. A travers contes, chansons, musiques, et minutieuses restitutions des travaux et des jours, on comprend pourquoi ces hommes se sont mis en quête de l'or et on saisit aussi les merveilleuses implications métaphysiques de cette ultime quête. En centrant son propos sur les orpailleurs, l'auteur tisse une trame qui s'étend à l'ensemble de la Caraïbe. Au fil des cent ans d'histoire qu'elle nous raconte, nous pouvons voir les processus de créolisation qui se sont reproduits depuis les premières ébauches de communauté sur la plantation insulaire jusqu'aux réinventions de l'identité par les migrants caribéens que l'on retrouve aujourd'hui à Toronto, Miami ou Paris. C'est un témoignage sur le processus continu de la créolisation, sur la migration et la reconstitution.".

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The furnace of gold
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Year: 1910 Publisher: New York : [©1910] Desmond FitzGerald, Inc,

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The Furnace of Gold was published in 1910. The title comes from Proverbs 17:3 The crucible for silver and the furnace for gold, but the Lord tests the heart. The story begins "Now Nevada, though robed in gray and white--the gray of sagebrush and the white of snowy summits--had never yet been accounted a nun when once again the early summer aroused the passions of her being and the wild peach burst into bloom. It was out in Nauwish valley, at the desert-edge, where gold has been stored in the hungry-looking rock to lure man away from fairer pastures. There were mountains everywhere--huge, rugged mountains, erected in the igneous fury of world-making, long since calmed. Above them all the sky was almost incredibly blue--an intense ultramarine of extraordinary clearness and profundity. At the southwest limit of the valley was the one human habitation established thereabout in many miles, a roadside station where a spring of water issued from the earth. Towards this, on the narrow, side-hill road, limped a dusty red automobile. It contained three passengers, two women and a man. Of the women, one was a little German maid, rather pretty and demure, whose duty it was to enact the chaperone. The other, Beth Kent, straight from New York City, well--the wild peach was in bloom.".


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The furnace of gold
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Year: 1910 Publisher: New York : [©1910] Desmond FitzGerald, Inc,

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The Furnace of Gold was published in 1910. The title comes from Proverbs 17:3 The crucible for silver and the furnace for gold, but the Lord tests the heart. The story begins "Now Nevada, though robed in gray and white--the gray of sagebrush and the white of snowy summits--had never yet been accounted a nun when once again the early summer aroused the passions of her being and the wild peach burst into bloom. It was out in Nauwish valley, at the desert-edge, where gold has been stored in the hungry-looking rock to lure man away from fairer pastures. There were mountains everywhere--huge, rugged mountains, erected in the igneous fury of world-making, long since calmed. Above them all the sky was almost incredibly blue--an intense ultramarine of extraordinary clearness and profundity. At the southwest limit of the valley was the one human habitation established thereabout in many miles, a roadside station where a spring of water issued from the earth. Towards this, on the narrow, side-hill road, limped a dusty red automobile. It contained three passengers, two women and a man. Of the women, one was a little German maid, rather pretty and demure, whose duty it was to enact the chaperone. The other, Beth Kent, straight from New York City, well--the wild peach was in bloom.".


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The story of an African working class : Ghanaian miners' struggles 1870-1980
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ISBN: 1783609761 Year: 2017 Publisher: London, [England] : Zed Books,

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The Wallachian Gold-Washers : Unlocking the Golden Past of the Rudari Woodworkers
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ISBN: 3657790381 3506790382 Year: 2023 Publisher: Paderborn, Germany : Brill Schöningh,

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Militants or proletarians ? : The economic culture of underground gold miners in southern Ghana, 1906-1976
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ISBN: 0902993259 9780902993259 Year: 1989 Publisher: Cambridge: University of Cambridge. African studies centre,

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Women of the Klondike
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ISBN: 1551103753 Year: 1995 Publisher: Vancouver : Whitecap books,

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The story of an African working class : Ghanaian miners' struggles, 1870-1980
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ISBN: 0862321506 Year: 1984 Publisher: London : Totowa (N.J.) : Zed Books ; US distributor, Biblio Distribution Center,

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The Orange Free State goldfield : a record of the discovery of gold in the Orange Free State, of the establishment of several gold mines there, of the building of new towns and of the part played in these enterprises by the Anglo American Corporation of South Africa, Limited
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Year: 1959 Publisher: Johannesburg: AAC,

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El Dorado in West Africa : the gold-mining frontier, African labor, and colonial capitalism in the Gold Coast, 1875-1900
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ISBN: 0821411977 0821411985 0852557698 085255768X Year: 1998 Publisher: Athens : Oxford : Ohio University Press ; J. Currey,

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