The anthropology of precious minerals /
The anthropology of precious minerals /
edited by Elizabeth Ferry, Annabel Vallard, and Andrew Walsh.
- Toronto : University of Toronto Press, c2020.
- vi, 208 p.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: engaging precious minerals / Andrew Walsh, Elizabeth Ferry, and Annabel Vallard -- Introduction to part one: scrappers, miners, and hunters / Susan D. Gillespie -- "Check out that gold-plated board!" scrapping cellphones and electronics in North America / Joshua A. Bell -- What is "artisanal" about "artisanal mining"? reflections from Madagascar's sapphire trade / Andrew Walsh -- The value and social lives of alpine crystals / Gilles Raveneau -- Introduction to part two: making preciousness: distinction and refraction / Elizabeth Ferry -- When stones become gems: valuations of minerals in Thailand / Annabel Vallard -- Transparent minerals and opaque diamond sources / Filipe Calvão -- Gold, ontological difference, and object agency / Les W. Field -- Afterward: facets of preciousness / Andrew Walsh, Elizabeth Ferry, and Annabel Vallard.
Based on a Wenner-Gren international workshop, held at the Royal Ontario Museum, this book addresses the complexity of human-mineral engagements through ethnographic case studies and anthropological reflections on different people and the minerals they deem 'precious.'
9781487503178 (hardcover) 1487503172 (hardcover)
Precious metals--Social aspects.
Mineral industries--Social aspects.
Mines and mineral resources --Social aspects.
Metal-work --Social aspects.
Anthropology.
GT5170 / .A58 2020
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: engaging precious minerals / Andrew Walsh, Elizabeth Ferry, and Annabel Vallard -- Introduction to part one: scrappers, miners, and hunters / Susan D. Gillespie -- "Check out that gold-plated board!" scrapping cellphones and electronics in North America / Joshua A. Bell -- What is "artisanal" about "artisanal mining"? reflections from Madagascar's sapphire trade / Andrew Walsh -- The value and social lives of alpine crystals / Gilles Raveneau -- Introduction to part two: making preciousness: distinction and refraction / Elizabeth Ferry -- When stones become gems: valuations of minerals in Thailand / Annabel Vallard -- Transparent minerals and opaque diamond sources / Filipe Calvão -- Gold, ontological difference, and object agency / Les W. Field -- Afterward: facets of preciousness / Andrew Walsh, Elizabeth Ferry, and Annabel Vallard.
Based on a Wenner-Gren international workshop, held at the Royal Ontario Museum, this book addresses the complexity of human-mineral engagements through ethnographic case studies and anthropological reflections on different people and the minerals they deem 'precious.'
9781487503178 (hardcover) 1487503172 (hardcover)
Precious metals--Social aspects.
Mineral industries--Social aspects.
Mines and mineral resources --Social aspects.
Metal-work --Social aspects.
Anthropology.
GT5170 / .A58 2020