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

Author:   Elizabeth Emma Ferry
Publisher:   Indiana University Press
ISBN:  

9780253009364


Pages:   264
Publication Date:   19 June 2013
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Elizabeth Emma Ferry
Publisher:   Indiana University Press
Imprint:   Indiana University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.340kg
ISBN:  

9780253009364


ISBN 10:   0253009367
Pages:   264
Publication Date:   19 June 2013
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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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

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An exciting new contribution to sociocultural anthropology, one that is strongly ethnographic and richly analyzed... Will make a major and important contribution to the literature on how value is created. Les W. Field, University of New Mexico An outstanding ethnographic account of the extraction and international circulation of mineral specimens that is sure to be of interest to a broad readership. Andrew Walsh, University of Western Ontario


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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.

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