Oral Presentation Session

Reviewed by: American Ethnological Society

(2-0110) The Illicit Circulation of Precious Minerals

Organizer(s)

• Brian Brazeal

  Associate Professor of Anthropology
  California State University, Chico

Chair(s)

• Brian Brazeal

  Associate Professor of Anthropology
  California State University, Chico

Presenter(s)

• James Smith

  University of California, Davis

• Lauren Coyle

  Assistant Professor
  Princeton University

• Kirsten Francescone

  PhD Candidate
  Carleton University

• Brian Brazeal

  Associate Professor of Anthropology
  California State University, Chico

• Nicole Smith

  Assistant Professor
  Colorado School of Mines

• Matthew Nesvet

  University of California, Davis

• Natalia Mendoza Rockwell

  Fordham University

Presentations:

• 12:00 PM - 12:15 PM

  The Eyes of The World: criminality, violence, and the tracking of "conflict minerals" in the Eastern DR Congo
• 12:15 PM - 12:30 PM

  Ritual Realms of Illicit Gold in Ghana
• 12:30 PM - 12:45 PM

  Where is the "indio?" Tracing Indium production to the colonial mines of the Cerro Rico de Potosi
• 12:45 PM - 1:00 PM

  Rubies of Mozambique in Thailand: Ethical Dimensions of an International Informal Economy
• 1:00 PM - 1:15 PM

  Labor, chemicals, and tailings: The materiality of artisanal and small-scale ore processing systems in a gold mining area of Peru
• 1:15 PM - 1:30 PM

  Rock, paper, gold: Hybrid materiality in South Africa’s artisanal gold mining industry
• 1:30 PM - 1:45 PM

  Il/legal Exploitation of Gold in the Sonora Desert: Territory, Obligation, and Exchange