Social approaches to an industrial past : the archaeology and anthropology of mining / / edited by A. Bernard Knapp, Vincent C. Pigott and Eugenia W. Herbert

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910799984503321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1998
• ISBN: 1-134-67651-4; 1-134-67652-2; 1-280-33056-2; 0-203-06892-0
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (323 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): KnappArthur Bernard; PigottVincent C; HerbertEugenia W
• Disciplina: 338.09; 930.1
• Soggetti: Miners - Social conditions; Mines and mineral resources - History; Industrial archaeology
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; Foreword; Social approaches to the archaeology and anthropology of mining A.BERNARD KNAPP; Historical archaeology; 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.EHRENREICHAnthropology and social history; '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.SHERIDANPrehistory and protohistory; Producing copper in the eastern Alps during the second millennium 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 MEYEROverviews; On the value of mixed methods in studying mining communities DAVID KILLICK; Mining communities, chanes operatoires and sociotechnical systems BRYAN PFAFFENBERGER; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Social Approaches to an Industrial Past addresses the social issues of mining communities in research spanning a period of 4,500 years. The volume considers themes which are relatively new to archaeology: * the social context of production * gender * power and labour exploitation * imperialism and colonialism * production and technology.