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OverviewElizabeth Emma Ferry traces the movement of minerals as they circulate from Mexican mines to markets, museums, and private collections. 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, and luxury collectibles. The story of mineral exploration and trade defines a rich and variegated US-Mexican space and sheds new light on this complex relationship. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Elizabeth Emma FerryPublisher: Indiana University Press Imprint: Indiana University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.499kg ISBN: 9780253009289ISBN 10: 0253009286 Pages: 264 Publication Date: 19 June 2013 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 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 IndexReviewsAn 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 Author InformationElizabeth 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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