Social approaches to an industrial past : the archaeology and anthropology of mining / edited by A. Bernard Knapp, Vincent C. Pigott & Eugenia W. Herbert. - 1st edition. - London ; New York : Routledge, c1998. - xvi, 306 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

1. Social approaches to the archaeology and anthropology

PART 1
Historical archaeology

2 . The fabric and structure of Australian mining settlement
3.Gender and commodity structure on Australian colonial goldfields
4. Bedroom politics : Ladies of the night and men of the day
5. Power and the industrial mining community in the American west
6. The mining camp as community
7. Mining, colonialism and culture contact : European miners and the indigenous population in the sixteen century arctic

PART II
8. Find the 'ekijinjumira' : Iron mine discovery, ownership and power among the toro of Uganda
9. Mining as microcosm in precolonial sub- Saharan Africa :An overview
10. A risky business : death, injury and religion in Cornish mining
11. Silver shackles and copper collars : race, class and labor in the arizon mining industry from the eighteen century until world war II

PART III
Prehistory and protohistory
12.Producing copper in the eastern Alp during the second millennium BC
13.Prehistoric copper mining in the context of enraging community craft specialisation in northern Thailand
14. Small scale mining and smelting in ancient Cyprus
15. Exploiting the desert frontier : the logistics and politics of ancient Egyptian mining expeditions
16. Gold mines and mining at Bir UMM Fawakhir

PART IV
Overview
17. On the value of mixed method in studying mining communities
18. Mining communities,

Includes bibliographical references . _ Index : P301-306

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Miners--Social conditions--Congresses.
Mines and mineral resources--History--Congresses.
Industrial archaeology--Congresses.

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