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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Ferry, Elizabeth Emma
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2013]
Series:Tracking globalization.
Subjects:
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
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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