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Minerals, Collecting, and Value across the US-Mexico Border (Paperback): Elizabeth Emma Ferry Minerals, Collecting, and Value across the US-Mexico Border (Paperback)
Elizabeth Emma Ferry
R861 R640 Discovery Miles 6 400 Save R221 (26%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Elizabeth Emma Ferry traces the movement of minerals as they circulate from Mexican mines to markets, museums, and private collections on both sides of the US-Mexico border. 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, works of art, and luxury collectibles. 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.

Not Ours Alone - Patrimony, Value, and Collectivity in Contemporary Mexico (Paperback): Elizabeth Emma Ferry Not Ours Alone - Patrimony, Value, and Collectivity in Contemporary Mexico (Paperback)
Elizabeth Emma Ferry; Foreword by June Nash
R912 R817 Discovery Miles 8 170 Save R95 (10%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Elizabeth Emma Ferry explores how members of Guanajuato's Santa Fe Cooperative, Mexico's only remaining cooperatively owned silver mine, give meaning to their labor in an era of rampant globalization and neoliberalism. Ferry analyzes the cooperative's practices and the importance of "patrimonio" (patrimony) in their understanding of work, kinship, and morality. More specifically, she argues that patrimonio, a belief that certain resources are inalienable possessions of a local collective passed down to subsequent generations, shapes and sustains the cooperative's sense of identity.

In addition to descriptions of the miners' lives and views, Ferry examines patrimonio's influence on other aspects of Mexican life. Patrimonio, which both challenges and coexists with contemporary capitalist practices, draws close connections between collective identities, rights to resources, and social obligations throughout Mexican society. Ferry's ambitious, groundbreaking study opens up new ways of understanding modern Mexican history, the idea of property, value, and exchange in capitalist society, and current debates in Mexico over the ownership of resources, land, and historical artifacts.

Minerals, Collecting, and Value across the US-Mexico Border (Hardcover): Elizabeth Emma Ferry Minerals, Collecting, and Value across the US-Mexico Border (Hardcover)
Elizabeth Emma Ferry
R2,288 Discovery Miles 22 880 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Elizabeth Emma Ferry traces the movement of minerals as they circulate from Mexican mines to markets, museums, and private collections on both sides of the US-Mexico border. 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, works of art, and luxury collectibles. 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.

Timely Assets - The Politics of Resources and Their Temporalities (Paperback): Elizabeth Emma Ferry Timely Assets - The Politics of Resources and Their Temporalities (Paperback)
Elizabeth Emma Ferry
R1,000 R814 Discovery Miles 8 140 Save R186 (19%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Oil is running out. What's more, its final depletion, once relegated to a misty future, now seems imminent. In all the more or less apocalyptic discussions of oil and similar depleted resources, nature, labor, and time converge. This volume focuses on how resources, resource-making, and resource-claiming are entangled with experiences of time. Particular expressions of "resource imaginations" often have a strongly temporal aspect: they frame the past, present, and future in certain ways; they propose or preclude certain kinds of time reckoning; they inscribe teleologies; they are imbued with affects of time: nostalgia, hope, dread, spontaneity, and so on. Examining resources as various as silver in Mexico, "diversity" in an American university, and historical documents in Indonesia, the contributors to this volume ask several questions: Under what conditions and with what consequences do people find something to be a resource? What kinds of temporal experiences, concepts, or narratives does thinking of things as resources entail? How does the making and imagining of resources assume or condition particular understandings of past, present, and future? How do understandings of time shape the ways resources are named, managed, or allocated?

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