Artisanal and small-scale gold mining in the Amazonian countries has undergone important technological improvements in recent decades. Nevertheless, this type of mining is largely associated with the use of rudimentary, low-tech and often
30-10-2014· Social anthropologists are perhaps most known for their work among Indigenous Peoples in relation to mining conflicts. Many also work inside mining companies as staff in corporate social...
15-10-2014· Shopkeepers developed the “digger ounce” as a way to swindle the gold the Native Americans were able to mine at this time. The violence expanded into a widespread militia and several massacres, the cultural damage of which is still prominent in many Native American societies (Chatterjee 1996).
11-06-2014· Mining, Environments and the role of Anthropologists #economics. The continued economic and ecological crises of recent years have again shown how economists and international leaders have overestimated the ability of markets to expand and self-regulate. In a finite world, dominated by a social imaginary of infinite progress and magically,
Gold and Gold Mining in Ancient Egypt and Nubia David Killicka a School of Anthropology University of Arizona, Tucson United States of America Published online: 07 Nov 2013.
RESOURCE Wars: The Anthropology of Mining Chris Ballard Division of Pacific and Asian History, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University, Canberra,,Figure 1 Average annual gold and copper prices, 1970-2002. 3500 3000 2500 _ o> c c 2000 J? 1500 W 1000
The scope for an anthropology of mining has been dramatically transformed since the review by Ricardo Godoy, published in this review journal in 1985. The minerals boom of
The anthropology of mining has produced rich ethnographic analyses of the importance of mineral resources such as gold for the livelihoods of indigenous and migrant miners, insights and beliefs regarding these resources and their natural environment in general, and notions of customary law and the legality of accesssss to minerals.
Mining is the process of extracting useful materials from the earth. Some examples of substances that are mined include coal, gold, or iron ore. Iron ore is the material from which the metal iron is produced. The process of mining dates back to prehistoric times.
Mining in the Pacific: Lessons from the Porgera Gold Mine . Jun 17, 2014· Host Hong Jiang speaks with Alex Golub Associate Professor of Anthropology, UH Manoa about the impact of mining expansion in the Pacific.
15-10-2014· Placers are deposits of gravels that contain small amounts of various minerals, in this case, gold (Yeend, et al, 1998). In the first few years of the gold rush, surface placer deposits were abundant (Limbaugh, 1998) but as gold dwindled from the surface and into the miners’ pockets, created the need to develop more invasive mining technology.
Then destructive iron came forth, and gold, more destructive than iron; then war came forth. —Ovid, Metamorphoses, Book I, lines 137–143; cited in Agricola [2014 (1556), p. 7] THE EXTRACTIVE IMPERATIVE AND THE EXPANSION OF MINING IN THE MINERAL AGE Life in the first decades of the twenty-first century is now characterized as the Anthropocene
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30-10-2014· Anthropology exposes how miners shape our world and our views of it. by Sally Babidge,,For example, the gold mine dumps 58 million
No Ethnographic Playground: Mining Projects and Anthropological Politics. A Review Essay MARINA WELKER Anthropology, Cornell University Golub, Alex. Leviathans at the Gold Mine : Creating Indigenous and Corporate Actors in Papua New Guinea . Durham: Duke University Press, 2014. Kirsch, Stuart. Mining Capitalism : The Relationship between,
20-10-2021· The way that gold objects were used in society provided clues as to the nature of this social rejection.” The researchers believe that in the centuries leading up to the decline, gold had become an extreme symbol of elitism (evident by the volume of grave goods made from gold), which would become rejected as acceptability of this kind of conspicuous consumption
30-09-2021· The scientists restoring a gold-mining disaster zone in the Peruvian Amazon,Anthropology. Drug-fuelled parties helped ancient Andean rulers to hold power. Research Highlight 12 JAN 22.
16-11-2012· This paper reviews gold and copper mining in Papua New Guinea (PNG) along the “triad stakeholder model” (Ballard and Banks 2003) proposing a triad relationship between (1) trans-national mining corporations, (2) the nation-state of Papua New Guinea, and (3) indigenous local communities, their socio-ecological environment and claims. Gold mining could be a
31-03-2020· Mongolia’s mining sector, along with its environmental and social costs, have been the subject of prolonged and heated debate. This debate has often cast the country as either a victim of the ‘resource curse’ or guilty of ‘resource nationalism’.In The State, Popular Mobilisation and Gold Mining in Mongolia, Dulam Bumoc
Then destructive iron came forth, and gold, more destructive than iron; then war came forth. —Ovid, Metamorphoses, Book I, lines 137–143; cited in Agricola [2014 (1556), p. 7] THE EXTRACTIVE IMPERATIVE AND THE EXPANSION OF MINING IN THE MINERAL AGE Life in the first decades of the twenty-first century is now characterized as the Anthropocene
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30-10-2014· Anthropology exposes how miners shape our world and our views of it. by Sally Babidge,,For example, the gold mine dumps 58 million
No Ethnographic Playground: Mining Projects and Anthropological Politics. A Review Essay MARINA WELKER Anthropology, Cornell University Golub, Alex. Leviathans at the Gold Mine : Creating Indigenous and Corporate Actors in Papua New Guinea . Durham: Duke University Press, 2014. Kirsch, Stuart. Mining Capitalism : The Relationship between,
Cultural Anthropology journal content published since 2014 is freely available to download, save, reproduce, and transmit for noncommercial, scholarly,,Marmato is one of the world’s oldest gold-mining sites. It has gone through recurrent cycles of boom and bust, producing different extractive regimes, all of
30-09-2021· The scientists restoring a gold-mining disaster zone in the Peruvian Amazon,Anthropology. Drug-fuelled parties helped ancient Andean rulers to hold power. Research Highlight 12 JAN 22.
20-10-2021· The way that gold objects were used in society provided clues as to the nature of this social rejection.” The researchers believe that in the centuries leading up to the decline, gold had become an extreme symbol of elitism (evident by the volume of grave goods made from gold), which would become rejected as acceptability of this kind of conspicuous consumption
Key words: Small-scale mining, gold miners, women, poverty. International Journal of Sociology and Anthropology - gender and labour force inequality in small-scale gold mining in ghana This paper explores the underlying elements of gender inequality pertinent to women in the small-scale gold mining sector in Ghana drawing inference from a case study of the Tarkwa
16-11-2012· This paper reviews gold and copper mining in Papua New Guinea (PNG) along the “triad stakeholder model” (Ballard and Banks 2003) proposing a triad relationship between (1) trans-national mining corporations, (2) the nation-state of Papua New Guinea, and (3) indigenous local communities, their socio-ecological environment and claims. Gold mining could be a
03-04-2020· Marjo de Theije is a professor in the anthropology of resources in the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. She specializes in the study of small-scale gold mining in the Amazon region, especially the Guianas and Brazil. Her email is m.de.theije@vu.
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