L’economia occulta dei “soldi facili” tra i minatori di diamante della Sierra Leone

Autori

  • Lorenzo D'Angelo Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1473/88

Parole chiave:

Money, occult economy, Sierra Leone, diamond mining

Abstract

The idea of earning “easy money” is one of the reason that attracts diamond seekers in the mines of Sierra Leone. Only few miners, however, are successful and actually enrich themselves. In this paper I deal with the issue of how to make sense of those ritual practices and religious ideas that arise among miners to explain the wealth acquired by colleagues through non-trasparent and occult means.

Biografia autore

Lorenzo D'Angelo, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano

Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano, Dipartimento di Psicologia, Largo A. Gemelli 1 – 20123, Milano, Italy

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Pubblicato

2014-04-03

Come citare

D’Angelo, L. (2014). L’economia occulta dei “soldi facili” tra i minatori di diamante della Sierra Leone. EtnoAntropologia, 2(1), 57–64. https://doi.org/10.1473/88

Sezione

Transazioni – Forme di solidarietà – Umanitarismi