Tracing the Veins: Of Copper, Culture, and Community from Butte to Chuquicamata - Hardcover

Finn, Janet L.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0520211367 ISBN 13: 9780520211360

Verlag: University of California Press, 1998

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This tale of two cities - Butte, Montana, and Chuquicamata, Chile - traces the relationship of capitalism and community across cultural, national, and geographic boundaries. Combining social history with ethnography, this text shows how the development of copper mining set in motion parallel processes involving distinctive constructions of community, class, and gender in the two widely separated but intimately related sites. While the Anaconda Company made profits, the miners and their families in both places struggled to survive. The author explores themes of privation and privilege, trust and betrayal, and offers a model for community studies that links local culture and global capitalism.

Nota de la solapa:

"Novel, engaging, and interesting. . . . [Finn] conveys the urgency of understanding the intertwining sources of conflict and struggle in the contemporary world."—Benjamin S. Orlove, University of California, Davis

"Finn blends trenchant scholarship and stylistic mastery with exceptional intelligence. If this is not cutting edge, I just wonder what is."—Jean-Paul Dumont, George Mason University

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• Verlag: University of California Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0520211367
• ISBN 13: 9780520211360
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 347