Minerals, collecting, and value across the U.S.-Mexico border /

Elizabeth Emma Ferry traces the movement of minerals as they circulate from Mexican mines to markets, museums, and private collections. She describes how and why these byproducts of ore mining come to be valued by people in various walks of life as scientific specimens, religious offerings, and luxu...

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Author / Creator: Ferry, Elizabeth Emma.
Format: eBook Electronic
Language:English
Language notes:English.
Imprint: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2013]
Series:Tracking globalization.
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Retention:digitized
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