Courses

This graduate seminar is offered to students interested in the anthropological analysis of extractive economies and the social and political forms associated with them, including the forms of overt and clandestine political radicalism that have often arisen in contexts of mining. Considering the social life, as well as the technical and epistemic conditions of natural resource extraction and especially underground mining, the course is concerned with the symbolic function that various minerals have played in different, often conflicted imaginations of historicity, interest and value.