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The Miner's Ear
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MusicMining ScienceColonialismSouth African HistorySocial SciencesMining And ExplorationMining EnvironmentAfrican HistoryAfrican American StudiesSouth AfricaGold Mining IndustryAfrican DevelopmentMaterial CultureAudiologyRosalind C. MorrisMineral EconomicsHearing LossTechnologyAnthropologyArtsAuditory SystemMining Industry
The gold mining industry in South Africa and its effects upon the physical well-being of mineworkers serves as a peculiarly apt metaphor for the pathological colonial state and its paradoxical conditions. Rosalind C. Morris descends into the mines to examine the real significance of sinkholes.