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Tracing the Veins - Of Copper, Culture, and Community from Butte to Chuquicamata (Paperback, New)
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Tracing the Veins - Of Copper, Culture, and Community from Butte to Chuquicamata (Paperback, New)
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This tale of two cities--Butte, Montana, and Chuquicamata,
Chile--traces the relationship of capitalism and community across
cultural, national, and geographic boundaries. Combining social
history with ethnography, Janet Finn shows how the development of
copper mining set in motion parallel processes involving
distinctive constructions of community, class, and gender in the
two widely separated but intimately related sites. While the rich
veins of copper in the Rockies and the Andes flowed for the giant
Anaconda Company, the miners and their families in both places
struggled to make a life as well as a living for themselves.
Miner's consumption, a popular name for silicosis, provides a
powerful metaphor for the danger, wasting, and loss that penetrated
mining life. Finn explores themes of privation and privilege, trust
and betrayal, and offers a new model for community studies that
links local culture and global capitalism.
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