Tracing the Veins – Of Copper, Culture & Community from Butte to Chuquicamata: Of Copper, Culture, and Community from Butte to Chuquicamata - Hardcover

Finn, Janet L

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0520211367 ISBN 13: 9780520211360

Publisher: University of California Press, 1998

Synopsis

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, this text 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 Anaconda Company made profits, the miners and their families in both places struggled to survive. The author explores themes of privation and privilege, trust and betrayal, and offers a model for community studies that links local culture and global capitalism.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

"Novel, engaging, and interesting. . . . [Finn] conveys the urgency of understanding the intertwining sources of conflict and struggle in the contemporary world."--Benjamin S. Orlove, University of California, Davis

"Finn blends trenchant scholarship and stylistic mastery with exceptional intelligence. If this is not cutting edge, I just wonder what is."--Jean-Paul Dumont, George Mason University

About the Author:

Janet L. Finn is Assistant Professor of Social Work and Adjunct Professor of Anthropology at the University of Montana.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0520211367
• ISBN 13: 9780520211360
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 328