Unstable Ground

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Rosalind C. Morris is professor of anthropology at Columbia University. A writer, cultural critic, and documentary filmmaker, she has received numerous awards for her scholarly and artistic work, including a Guggenheim Fellowship.

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Based on field research conducted across more than twenty-five years around abandoned mines in South Africa, Unstable Ground reveals the worlds that gold made possible-and gold's profound costs for those who have lived in its shadow and dreamt of its transformative power.

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Preface: GroundPreliminary Definitions
A Note on Orthography and Capitalization

1. Clearing Ground
   Part I. Groundwork
2. Letters, Ruin: Migrancy's Remainders
3. Gold Fools: Or, What Is a Gold Rush?
4. Cyanide Dreams and the Redemption of Waste: Or, Snowballs in Hell
5. We're Ground Underfoot: Movements Without Mobility
6. Down, in Africa: Women Surpassing Protest
   Part II. The Deep
7. Figure, Ground, and Sinkhole
8. The Sky's the Limit: Visions and Divisions of the World
9. Utopia on the Highveld
10. Good as Gold: Standards and Margins of Value
11. Catalytic Conversions: Becoming Organized
12. Go Underground: Or, When Was Youth?
13. Zombies Sing Pata Pata: The Impossible Subject of Political Violence
    Part III. Surfacing
14. Terrain of the Fetish: Dislocations Relocations, and the Difficulty of Moving On
15. Rush, Panic, Rush: A New Book of the Dead
16. Magic Mountain: Debt and the Ancestors
17. Gambling on Gold Again
18. Afterward, Afterword
    Acknowledgments
    Notes
    References
    Index