Abstract:Forum: Anthropology of oil and the resource curse
For half a century, oil production has been a key factor in the development of a small number of African states south of the Sahara. Only now, however, it is ecoming a source of substantial social, economic and cultural transformation for an increasing number of new African oil states. This is partly due to the fact that political instability in the Near and Middle East, the inexorable move towards or even passing of ‘peak oil’, the growing demand for o… Show more
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