Social approaches to an industrial past : the archaeology and anthropology of mining /

Other Authors: Pigott, Vincent C.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 1998.
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Table of Contents:
  • Social approaches to the archaeology and anthropology of mining / A. Bernard Knapp
  • The fabric and structure of Australian mining settlements / Peter Bell
  • Gender and community structure on Australian colonial goldfields / Susan Lawrence
  • Bedroom politics: ladies of the night and men of the day / Alexy Simmons
  • Power and the industrial mining community in the American West / Donald L. Hardesty
  • The mining camp as community / William A. Douglass
  • Mining, colonialism, and culture contact: European miners and the indigenous population in the sixteenth-century Arctic / Robert M. Ehrenreich
  • "Find the ekijunjumira": iron mine discovery, ownership, and power among the Toro of Uganda / S. Terry Childs
  • Mining as microcosm in precolonial sub-Saharan Africa: an overview / Eugenia W. Herbert
  • A risky business: death, injury, and religion in Cornish mining c. 1780-1870 / John Rule
  • Silver shackles and copper collars: race, class, and labor in the Arizona mining industry from the eighteenth century until World War II / Thomas E. Sheridan
  • Producing copper in the eastern Alps during the second millennum BC / Stephen Shennan
  • Prehistoric copper mining in the context of emerging community craft specialization in northeast Thailand / Vincent C. Pigott
  • Small-scale mining and smelting in ancient Cyprus / Vasiliki Kassianidou
  • Exploiting the desert frontier: the logistics and politics of ancient Egyptian mining expeditions / Ian Shaw
  • Gold-miners and mining at Bir Umm Fawakhir / Carol Meyer
  • On the value of mixed methods in studying mining communities / David Killick
  • Mining communities, chaînes opératoires, and sociotechnical systems / Bryan Pfaffenberger.