Minerals, Collecting, and Value across the US-Mexico Border /

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Traces the movement of minerals from Mexican mines to markets, museums, and provate collections and explores their value as scientific specimens, religious offerings, works of art, and luxury collectibles.

Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Ferry, Elizabeth Emma
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2013]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Rock collectors.
Minerals > Collection and preservation.
Mineral industries > Social aspects.
Commerce.
Mines > Industrie > Aspect social.
Mineraux > Collections et conservation > Mexique.
Mineraux > Collections et conservation > États-Unis.
Minerals > Collection and preservation > Mexico.
Minerals > Collection and preservation > United States.
United States.
Mexico.
États-Unis > Commerce > Mexique.
Mexico > Commerce > United States.
United States > Commerce > Mexico.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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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