Minerals, collecting, and value across the U.S.-Mexico border:
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1. Verfasser: Ferry, Elizabeth Emma (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Bloomington Indiana University Press [2013]
Schriftenreihe:Tracking globalization
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Histories, mineralogies, economies -- Shifting stones : mineralogy and mineral collecting in Mexico and the United States -- Making scientific value -- Mineral collections and their minerals : building up U.S.-Mexican transnational spaces -- Making places in space : miners and collectors in Guanajuato and Tucson -- Mineral marketplaces, arbitrage, and the production of difference
Elizabeth 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
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ISBN:0253009286
0253009367
0253009480
9780253009289
9780253009364
9780253009487

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