Cuvelier, Jeroen - In: Africa Spectrum 49 (2014) 2, pp. 3-26
This article, based on 16 months of anthropological fieldwork between 2005 and 2012, examines the relationship between work and masculinity among artisanal miners, or creuseurs, in Katanga, the southeastern province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It argues that men’s involvement in...