Minerals, collecting, and value across the U.S.-Mexico border [[electronic resource] /] / Elizabeth Emma Ferry

• Autore: Ferry Elizabeth Emma
• Pubblicazione: Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (252 p.)
• Disciplina: 382/.45549972
• Soggetto topico: Mineral industries - Social aspects; Minerals - Collection and preservation - Mexico; Minerals - Collection and preservation - United States; Rock collectors
• Soggetto geografico: Mexico Commerce United States; United States Commerce Mexico
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Histories, mineralogies, economies -- Shifting stones : mineralogy and mineral collecting in Mexico and the United States -- Making scientific value -- Mineral collections and their minerals : building up U.S.-Mexican transnational spaces -- Making places in space : miners and collectors in Guanajuato and Tucson -- Mineral marketplaces, arbitrage, and the production of difference.
• Sommario/riassunto: Elizabeth Emma Ferry traces the movement of minerals as they circulate from Mexican mines to markets, museums, and private collections. She describes how and why these byproducts of ore mining come to be valued by people in various walks of life as scientific specimens, religious offerings, and luxury collectibles. The story of mineral exploration and trade defines a rich and variegated US-Mexican space and sheds new light on this complex relationship.
• Titolo autorizzato: Minerals, collecting, and value across the U.S.-Mexico border
• ISBN: 0-253-00948-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910465647503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Tracking Globalization