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



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Titolo: Social approaches to an industrial past : the archaeology and anthropology of mining / / edited by A. Bernard Knapp, Vincent C. Pigott and Eugenia W. Herbert Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1998
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (323 p.)
Disciplina: 338.09
930.1
Soggetto topico: Miners - Social conditions
Mines and mineral resources - History
Industrial archaeology
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Altri autori: KnappArthur Bernard  
PigottVincent C  
HerbertEugenia W  
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.
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ISBN: 1-134-67652-2
1-280-33056-2
0-203-06892-0
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910451416603321
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