Minerals, Collecting, and Value across the US-Mexico Border

Elizabeth Emma Ferry (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

264 Seiten

2013
Indiana University Press (Verlag)
978-0-253-00928-9 (ISBN)

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Traces the movement of minerals as they circulate from Mexican mines to markets, museums, and private collections

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 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.

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

Zusatzinfo	27 b&w illus.
Verlagsort	Bloomington, IN
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	499 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
	Technik ► Bergbau
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Makroökonomie
ISBN-10	0-253-00928-6 / 0253009286
ISBN-13	978-0-253-00928-9 / 9780253009289
Zustand	Neuware