W. Herbert Eugenia / Bernard A. Knapp / Vincent C. Pigott (eds.)

Social Approaches to an Industrial Past

The Archaeology and Anthropology of Mining
Herausgeber: Herbert, Eugenia W; Pigott, Vincent C; Knapp, A Bernard

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Produktbeschreibung

Social Approaches to an Industrial Past is a pioneering collection which addresses the social context of mining communities. This collection considers social context using ethnographic and ethnohistoric records of various cultures.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 322
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. November 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 245mm x 156mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 744g
• ISBN-13: 9780415181501
• ISBN-10: 041518150X
• Artikelnr.: 22036347

Inhaltsangabe

1 Social approaches to the archaeology and Anthro ology of mining PART I
Historical archaeology 2 The fabric and structure of Australian mining
settlements 3Gender and community structure on Australian colonial
goldfields 4 Bedroom politics: ladies of the night and men of the day 5
Power and the industrial mining community in the American West 6 The mining
camp as community 7 Mining, colonialism and culture contact: European
miners and the indigenous population in the sixteenth-century Arctic PART
II Anthropology and social history 8 'Find the ekijunjumira': iron mine
discovery, ownership and power among the Toro of Uganda 9 Mining as
microcosm in precolonial sub-Saharan Africa: an overview 10 A risky
business: death, injury and religion in Cornish mining c. 1780-1870 11
Silver shackles and copper collars: race, class and labor in the Arizona
mining industry from the eighteenth century until World War II PART III
Prehistory and protohistory 12 Producing copper in the eastern Alps during
the second millennium BC 13Prehistoric copper mining in the context of
emerging community craft specialization in northeast Thailand 14
Small-scale mining and smelting in ancient Cyprus 15 Exploiting the desert
frontier: the logistics and politics of ancient Egyptian mining expeditions
16 Gold-miners and mining at Bir Umm Fawakhir PART IV Overviews 17 On the
value of mixed methods in studying mining communities 18 Mining
communities, chaînes opératoires and sociotechnical systems