In Sierra Leone, many artisanal miners share the view that every human act and every event is the realisation of an inscrutable divine plan. Even though notions of fate and destiny are part of the vocabulary of Krio, the country’s lingua franca, miners prefer to use expressions that evoke God and stress His immanent presence and influence in their everyday lives. In order to understand the religious vocabulary of contingency and the cosmology underlying the ways in which miners interpret, reproduce, and imaginatively prepare the conditions to change their lives, this article focuses on the ritual practices connected to artisanal diamond mining. It considers these rituals as attempts to resolve the ever-present temporal and moral tensions between actual conditions of suffering and poverty, and the realisation of the well-being that miners associate with their desired futures.

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上帝的礼物：塞拉利昂矿山的命运、贫穷和暂时性

在塞拉利昂，许多手工矿工都认为，人类的每一个行为和每一件事都是在实现一个高深莫测的神圣计划。尽管命运和命运的概念是该国通用语言 Krio 词汇的一部分，但矿工们更喜欢使用唤起上帝的表达方式，并强调他在日常生活中的内在存在和影响。为了理解偶然性的宗教词汇以及矿工解释、繁殖和富有想象力地准备改变生活条件的方式背后的宇宙学，本文重点介绍与手工钻石开采相关的仪式实践。它认为这些仪式是为了解决苦难和贫困的实际情况之间永远存在的时间和道德紧张关系，