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Beschreibung

Elizabeth Emma Ferry traces the movement of minerals as they circulate from Mexican mines to markets, museums, and private collections on both sides of the US-Mexico border. She describes how and why these byproducts of ore mining come to be valued by people in various walks of life as scientific specimens, religious offerings, works of art, and luxury collectibles. The story of mineral exploration and trade defines a variegated transnational space, shedding new light on the complex relationship between these two countries and on the process of making value itself.

Elizabeth Emma Ferry traces the movement of minerals as they circulate from Mexican mines to markets, museums, and private collections on both sides of the US-Mexico border. She describes how and why these byproducts of ore mining come to be valued by people in various walks of life as scientific specimens, religious offerings, works of art, and luxury collectibles. The story of mineral exploration and trade defines a variegated transnational space, shedding new light on the complex relationship between these two countries and on the process of making value itself.

Über den Autor

Elizabeth Emma Ferry is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Brandeis University. She is author of Not Ours Alone: Patrimony, Value, and Collectivity in Contemporary Mexico and editor (with Mandana Limbert) of Timely Assets: The Politics of Resources and their Temporalities.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Making Value and U.S.-Mexican Space

1. Histories, Mineralogies, Economies

2. Shifting Stones: Mineralogy and Mineral Collecting in Mexico and the United States

3. Making Scientific Value

4. Mineral Collections and Their Minerals: Building Up U.S.-Mexican Transnational Spaces

5. Making Places in Space: Miners and Collectors in Guanajuato and Tucson

6. Mineral Marketplaces, Arbitrage, and the Production of Difference

Conclusion

Appendix: Sources and Methods

Notes

References

Index

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
Fachbereich: Völkerkunde
Genre: Importe
Produktart: Nachschlagewerke
Rubrik: Völkerkunde
Medium: Taschenbuch
Reihe: Indiana University Press (IPS)
Inhalt: Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780253009364
ISBN-10: 0253009367
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Ferry, Elizabeth Emma
Hersteller: Indiana University Press
Indiana University Press (IPS)
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Mare Nostrum Group B.V., Doelen 72, ?-4831 GR Breda, gpsr@mare-nostrum.co.uk
Maße: 229 x 152 x 13 mm
Von/Mit: Elizabeth Emma Ferry
Erscheinungsdatum: 19.06.2013
Gewicht: 0,371 kg
Artikel-ID: 131310925