Currently Out Of Stock
Shifting Livelihoods
Paperback
€50.68
Collect 152 Reward Points
- Currently Out Of Stock
- Book Synopsis
- Honorable Mention for the Society for the Anthropology of Work (SAW) Book Prize The many dimensions of gold in a shadow economyPeople employ various methods to extract gold in the rainforests of the Chocó, in northwest Colombia: Rural Afro-Colombian artisanal miners work hillsides with hand tools or dredge mud from river bottoms. Migrant miners level the landscape with excavators, then trap gold with mercury. Canadian mining companies prospect for open-pit mega-mines. Drug traffickers launder cocaine profits by smuggling gold into Colombia and claiming it came from fictitious small-scale mines. Through an ethnography of gold that examines the movement of people, commodities, and capital, Shifting Livelihoods investigates how resource extraction reshapes a place. In the Chocó, gold enables forms of "shift" (rebusque)-a metaphor for the fluid livelihood strategy adopted by forest dwellers and migrant gold miners alike as they seek informal work amid a drug war. Mining's effects on rural people, corporations, and politics are on view in this fine-grained account of daily life in a regional economy dominated by gold and cocaine.
- About The Author
- Daniel Tubb is associate professor of anthropology at the University of New Brunswick, Fredericton. He received his PhD in anthropology with a specialization in political economy from Carleton University in 2014. This is his first book.
- Product Details
-
- ISBN
- 9780295747538
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press, (30 June 2020)
- Number of Pages
- 250
- Weight
- 340 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 152 x 228 x 21 mm
- Series:
- See all books in this series
- Categories: