Tracing the Veins

Of Copper, Culture, and Community from Butte to Chuquicamata
1. Auflage 1998
ISBN: 978-0-520-21137-7
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 347 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 440 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Finn, Janet L.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Wirtschafts- und Finanzpolitik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophische Anthropologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface 
I. Tracing the Veins 
2. Mining History: A Political Chronology 
3· Mining Community 
4· Mining Men and Designing Women 
5· Crafting the Everyday 
6. Miner's Consumption 
7· Trust, Betrayal, and Transformation 
8. Food for Thought and Action 
Appendix 1. Copper Production, 1920-1972 
Appendix 2. Copper Production, 1934-1972 
Notes 
Bibliography 
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Janet L. Finn is Assistant Professor of Social Work and Adjunct Professor of Anthropology at the University of Montana.