Beschreibung:
Elizabeth Emma Ferry is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Brandeis University. She is author of Not Ours Alone: Patrimony, Value, and Collectivity in Contemporary Mexico and editor (with Mandana Limbert) of Timely Assets: The Politics of Resources and their Temporalities.
The story of mineral exploration and trade defines a variegated transnational space, shedding new light on the complex relationship between these two countries and on the process of making value itself.
AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Making Value and U.S.-Mexican Space1. Histories, Mineralogies, Economies2. Shifting Stones: Mineralogy and Mineral Collecting in Mexico and the United States3. Making Scientific Value4. Mineral Collections and Their Minerals: Building Up U.S.-Mexican Transnational Spaces5. Making Places in Space: Miners and Collectors in Guanajuato and Tucson6. Mineral Marketplaces, Arbitrage, and the Production of DifferenceConclusionAppendix: Sources and MethodsNotesReferencesIndex