Shifting livelihoods gold mining and subsistence in the Chocó, Colombia / Daniel Tubb.
| Author/creator | Tubb, Daniel |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2020] |
| Description | xxviii, 217 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Series | Culture, place, and nature : studies in anthropology and Environment |
| Contents | Foreword / by K. Sivaramakrishnan -- Gold and the household -- Gold and cash -- Family mines and small-scale mining -- Rebusque on the precarious periphery -- Simulated extraction and gold based-money laundering -- Speculative projects and multinational mines -- Conclusion. Life after the gold rush. |
| Abstract | "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" (Colombian: 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"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-207) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2019047809 |
| ISBN | 9780295747521 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | 9780295747538 (paperback) |
| ISBN | (ebook) |
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