Minerals, Collecting, and Value Across the US-Mexico Border

Name: Minerals, Collecting, and Value Across the US-Mexico Border
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ISBN: 9780253009289

ISBN-10: 0253009286

ISBN-13: 9780253009289

Edition: 2013

Authors: Elizabeth Emma Ferry

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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 luxury collectibles. The story of mineral exploration and trade defines a rich and variegated US-Mexican space and sheds new light on this complex relationship.

Book details

List price: $67.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 6/19/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 264
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.85" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

Elizabeth Emma Ferry is assistant professor of anthropology at Brandeis University.



Introduction: Making Value in U.S.-Mexican Space



Histories, Mineralogies, Economies



Shifting Stones: Mineralogy and Mineral Collecting in Mexico and the U.S.



Making Scientific Value



Mineral Collections and their Minerals: Building up US-Mexican Transnational Spaces



Making Places in Space: Miners and Collectors in Guanajuato and Tucson



Mineral Marketplaces, Arbitrage, and the Production of Difference


Conclusion