Small-Scale Mining, Large-Scale Issues: An Introduction to the Anthropology of Informal, Artisanal, and Small-Scale Mining

Dozent/in	Willem Edward Church, MA
Veranstaltungsart	Proseminar
Code	HS201446
Semester	Herbstsemester 2020
Durchführender Fachbereich	Ethnologie
Studienstufe	Bachelor
Termin/e	wöchentlich (Di), ab 15.09.2020, 12:15 - 14:00 Uhr, 4.B01
Umfang	2 Semesterwochenstunden
Turnus	wöchentlich
Inhalt	Artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) employs some 40 million people world-wide, and supplies an estimated 20% of the world gold supply, 80% of sapphires, and 20% of diamonds. Popular imagery and imaginings of ASM is often of dirty pits of muddy workers, violent conflict over diamonds, and the shameless exploitation of miners. How much of this picture is a reality? How is ASM socially organized? Why do miners become involved in ASM? Are they pushed their due to poverty? This course will address these questions in more by providing students with an introduction to the anthropology of ASM, and reading the work of researchers have actually lived in ASM sites with small-scale miners. Topics will include the social organization of mining camps, cosmologies of miners, gender-relations in ASM sites, the environmental consequences of ASM, and violence and conflict in and around ASM sites. The course will be geographically wide-ranging with a focus on Sub-Saharan Africa.
E-Learning	Thema: Small-Scale Mining, Large-Scale Issues: An Introduction to the Anthropology of Informal, Artisanal, and Small-Scale Mining https://unilu.zoom.us/j/91687468220?pwd=l1brdfvnmtvscueyk0y4clbyvnvqqt09 Meeting ID: 916 8746 8220 Passcode: 289420
Sprache	Englisch
Abschlussform / Credits	Aktive Teilnahme / 4 Credits
Hörer-/innen	Ja
Kontakt	willem.church@unilu.ch
Literatur	Lahiri-Dutt. Kuntala (ed). 2018. Between the Plough and the Pick: Informal, Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining in the Contemporary World. Canberra: ANU Press (free download online) Douglass, William. 1998. “The Mining Camp as Community”. In Social Approaches to an Industrial Past: The Archaeology and Anthropology of Mining. London: Routledge. 97-108. High, Mette. 2017. Fear and Fortune: Spirit Worlds and Emerging Economies in the Mongolian Gold Rush. Cornell University Press: Ithaca, New York. (at Unilu Library)