Shifting livelihoods : gold mining and subsistence in the Chocó, Colombia /

"People employ various methods to extract gold in the rainforests of the Chocó, in northwest Colombia: Rural Afro-Colombian artisanal miners work hillsides with hand tools or dredge mud from river bottoms. Migrant miners level the landscape with excavators, then trap gold with mercury. Canadia...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Tubb, Daniel (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2020]
Colección:Culture, place, and nature.
Temas:
Gold miners > Colombia > Chocó > Social conditions.
Gold mines and mining > Social aspects > Colombia > Chocó.
Informal sector (Economics) > Colombia > Chocó.
Or > Mines et extraction > Aspect social > Colombie > Chocó.
Secteur informel (Économie politique) > Colombie > Chocó.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
Economic history.
Gold miners > Social conditions.
Gold mines and mining > Social aspects.
Informal sector (Economics)
Social conditions.
Chocó (Colombia) > Social conditions.
Chocó (Colombia) > Economic conditions.
Chocó (Colombie) > Conditions sociales.
Chocó (Colombie) > Conditions économiques.
Colombia > Chocó
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword / by K. Sivaramakrishnan
  • Gold and the household
  • Gold and cash
  • Family mines and small-scale mining
  • Rebusque on the precarious periphery
  • Simulated extraction and gold based-money laundering
  • Speculative projects and multinational mines
  • Conclusion. Life after the gold rush.

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