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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Published in:Vibrant : virtual Brazilian anthropology 2017-12, Vol.14 (2)
Main Author: Zhouri, Andréa
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Language:English
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Summary: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 enga...
ISSN:1809-4341
1809-4341
DOI:10.1590/1809-43412017v14n2p072