Shifting livelihoods : gold mining and subsistence in the Chocó, Colombia /

Shifting livelihoods : gold mining and subsistence in the Chocó, Colombia /

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Author / Creator:Tubb, Daniel, author.
Imprint:Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2020]
Description:xxviii, 217 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
Language:English
Series:Culture, place, and nature : studies in anthropology and Environment
Culture, place, and nature.
Subject:
Gold miners -- Colombia -- Chocó -- Social conditions.
Gold mines and mining -- Social aspects -- Colombia -- Chocó.
Informal sector (Economics) -- Colombia -- Chocó.
Economic history.
Gold miners -- Social conditions.
Gold mines and mining -- Social aspects.
Informal sector (Economics)
Social conditions.
Chocó (Colombia) -- Social conditions.
Chocó (Colombia) -- Economic conditions.
Colombia -- Chocó
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12409484
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ISBN:9780295747521
0295747528
9780295747538
0295747536
9780295747545
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:"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"--
Other form:Online version: Tubb, Daniel Gold in the Chocó, Colombia Shifting livelihoods Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2020] 9780295747545
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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.

Physical Description:xxviii, 217 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780295747521
0295747528
9780295747538
0295747536
9780295747545
The Edward G. Hefter Memorial Endowment Fund bookplate

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