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Shifting Livelihoods: Gold Mining and Subsistence in the Chocó, Colombia(Culture, Place, and Nature)

Shifting Livelihoods: Gold Mining and Subsistence in the Chocó, Colombia(Culture, Place, and Nature)


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Honorable Mention for the Society for the Anthropology of Work (SAW) Book Prize The many dimensions of gold in a shadow economy People 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.

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"Tubb writes with sparkling clarity, and he encapsulates big issues in brief biographical vignettes. He is gentle with technical matters, and adept at simplifying complex processes, a reflection of deep immersion in the business of mining (plus hunting, subsistence farming, and petty commerce)." -- "The Americas" "[A] rich and detailed ethnography." -- "American Anthropologist" "[O]ffers an engaging, complex account focused on issues concerning the production, accumulation, and transformation of value." -- "Choice" "The book's proposition of shifting livelihood strategies is especially convincing due to its writing style of ethnographic storytelling...The miners and their rainforest come to life in the book, one muddy page after another." -- "Bulletin of Latin American Research" "This ethnography is an eloquently written and concise read for multiple audiences interested in discussions about economic anthropology and the anthropology of mining... Shifting Livelihoods is a respectful walk alongside miners in Colombia's Chocó region that manages to capture their humanity and dignity - something that journalists and politicians have failed heretofore to do." -- "Anthropologica" "This is an exciting time for the anthropological study of mining, and Shifting Livelihoods makes a welcome contribution to the scholarship that is emerging." -- "Exertions" "Tubb astutely examines the economics of artisal mining in the Choco area, adeptly shifting from the macro to the micro, the global to the local, whilst telling a captivating and compelling story." -- "Nokoko"


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  • ISBN-13: 9780295747545
  • Publisher: University of Washington Press
  • Publisher Imprint: University of Washington Press
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: Culture, Place, and Nature
  • ISBN-10: 0295747544
  • Publisher Date: 30 Jun 2020
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • No of Pages: 250
  • Sub Title: Gold Mining and Subsistence in the Chocó, Colombia


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