Social Approaches to an Industrial Past: The Archaeology and Anthropology of Min

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A collection which addresses the social context of mining communities. This collection considers social context using ethnographic and ethnohistoric records of various cultures.

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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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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.

Author Biography

A. Bernard Knapp is reader in Archaeology at the University of Glasgow. Vincent C. Pigott is Senior Researcher at the Museum Applied Science Centre for Archaeology (MASCA), University of Pennsylvania Museum. Eugenia W. Herbert is E. Nevious Rodman Professor of History Emeritus, Mount Holyoke College, and book review editor for the African Studies Review.

Table of Contents

1 Social approaches to the archaeology and Anthro ology of mining PART I Historical archaeology 2 The fabric and structure of Australian mining settlements 3Gender and community structure on Australian colonial goldfields 4 Bedroom politics: ladies of the night and men of the day 5 Power and the industrial mining community in the American West 6 The mining camp as community 7 Mining, colonialism and culture contact: European miners and the indigenous population in the sixteenth-century Arctic PART II Anthropology and social history 8 'Find the ekijunjumira': iron mine discovery, ownership and power among the Toro of Uganda 9 Mining as microcosm in precolonial sub-Saharan Africa: an overview 10 A risky business: death, injury and religion in Cornish mining c. 1780–1870 11 Silver shackles and copper collars: race, class and labor in the Arizona mining industry from the eighteenth century until World War II PART III Prehistory and protohistory 12 Producing copper in the eastern Alps during the second millennium BC 13Prehistoric copper mining in the context of emerging community craft specialization in northeast Thailand 14 Small-scale mining and smelting in ancient Cyprus 15 Exploiting the desert frontier: the logistics and politics of ancient Egyptian mining expeditions 16 Gold-miners and mining at Bir Umm Fawakhir PART IV Overviews 17 On the value of mixed methods in studying mining communities 18 Mining communities, chaînes opératoires and sociotechnical systems

Review

"There is not better single source for those interested in the evolution of the technologies of mining and metallurgy, the social history of a craft, and the anthropology of mining communities."-"Social and Behavioral Sciences

Details ISBN041518150X Short Title SOCIAL APPROACHES TO AN INDUST Audience Age 18-18 Language English ISBN-10 041518150X ISBN-13 9780415181501 Media Book Format Hardcover Illustrations Yes Year 1998 Imprint Routledge Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 930.1 Edition 1st Edited by Vincent C. Pigott Author Vincent C. Pigott Subtitle The Archaeology and Anthropology of Mining DOI 10.1604/9780415181501 UK Release Date 1998-11-05 AU Release Date 1998-11-05 NZ Release Date 1998-11-05 Pages 322 Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd Publication Date 1998-11-05 Alternative 9780415642781 Audience Undergraduate We've got this

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