Introduction. Anthropology and knowledge production in a “minefield”

In 2003, when Chris Ballard and Glenn Banks updated – and upgraded – Ricardo Godoy’s call for a systematization of an Anthropology of Mining (1985), they simultaneously warned: “mining is no ethnographic playground”. Focused mainly in situations across the Asia-Pacific region, the review questioned...

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Xuất bản năm:URI:https://journals.openedition.org/vibrant,
Tác giả chính: Zhouri, Andréa
Định dạng: Article ou chapitre numérique
Ngôn ngữ:Anglais
Được phát hành: Vibrant 2022
Truy cập trực tuyến:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Tóm tắt:In 2003, when Chris Ballard and Glenn Banks updated – and upgraded – Ricardo Godoy’s call for a systematization of an Anthropology of Mining (1985), they simultaneously warned: “mining is no ethnographic playground”. Focused mainly in situations across the Asia-Pacific region, the review questioned the often monolithic “characterizations of state, corporate, and community forms of agency” and charted the debate among anthropologists involved in mining about the appropriate terms of their eng...