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Description:People employ various methods to extract gold in the rainforests of the Choc�, 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 Choc�, 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.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Shifting Livelihoods: Gold Mining and Subsistence in the Chocó, Colombia (Culture, Place, and Nature). To get started finding Shifting Livelihoods: Gold Mining and Subsistence in the Chocó, Colombia (Culture, Place, and Nature), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: People employ various methods to extract gold in the rainforests of the Choc�, 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 Choc�, 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.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Shifting Livelihoods: Gold Mining and Subsistence in the Chocó, Colombia (Culture, Place, and Nature). To get started finding Shifting Livelihoods: Gold Mining and Subsistence in the Chocó, Colombia (Culture, Place, and Nature), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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