Minerals, collecting, and value across the U.S.-Mexico border /

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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 luxu...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ferry, Elizabeth Emma
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2013]
Colección:Tracking globalization.
Temas:
Minerals > Collection and preservation > United States.
Minerals > Collection and preservation > Mexico.
Rock collectors.
Mineral industries > Social aspects.
Minéraux > Collections et conservation > États-Unis.
Minéraux > Collections et conservation > Mexique.
Mines > Industrie > Aspect social.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Exports & Imports.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > International > General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > International > Marketing.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > International Relations > Trade & Tariffs.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Commerce
Mineral industries > Social aspects
Minerals > Collection and preservation
Rock collectors
United States > Commerce > Mexico.
Mexico > Commerce > United States.
États-Unis > Commerce > Mexique.
Mexico
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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