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anaconda company
anthropology
Author_Janet L. Finn
betrayal
business
butte
capitalism
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chile
chuquicamata
class
community
community studies
consumption
copper mining
copper production
cultural boundaries
danger
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ethnography
gender
geographic boundaries
global capitalism
local culture
miners
mining
mining community
mining history
mining life
mining men
montana
national boundaries
politics
privation
privilege
silicosis
social history
transformation
wasting
Product details
- ISBN 9780520211377
- Weight: 454g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 03 Aug 1998
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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, Janet Finn 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 rich veins of copper in the Rockies and the Andes flowed for the giant Anaconda Company, the miners and their families in both places struggled to make a life as well as a living for themselves. Miner's consumption, a popular name for silicosis, provides a powerful metaphor for the danger, wasting, and loss that penetrated mining life. Finn explores themes of privation and privilege, trust and betrayal, and offers a new model for community studies that links local culture and global capitalism.
Janet L. Finn is Assistant Professor of Social Work and Adjunct Professor of Anthropology at the University of Montana.
