3-0035 BEYOND THE SOCIAL LIFE OF THINGS: NATURAL RESOURCES AND EMERGENT PERSONHOODS

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Thursday, November 17, 2011: 08:00-09:45

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This session would be of particular interest to:
Those involved in mentoring activities, Students, Teachers of Anthropology in Community Colleges, Practicing and Applied Anthropologists

Organizers: Sabrina A Peric (Harvard University)

Chairs: Elizabeth E Ferry (Brandeis University) and Sabrina A Peric (Harvard University)

Discussants: Sylvia J Yanagisako (Stanford University)

08:00

Mexican-Canadian Mining and the Politics of Personhood

Elizabeth E Ferry (Brandeis University)

08:15

Play and Reconciliation: Coexistence Amidst a Conflict Over Mining In Northwestern Ecuador

David Kneas (Yale University)

08:30

The Life of the Mining Engineer: Extracting Ore and Making War In Bosnia and Herzegovina

Sabrina A Peric (Harvard University)

08:45

Shallow and Deep Social Relations In a Malagasy Sapphire Mining Town

Andrew F Walsh (University of Western Ontario)

09:00

Economic Geology and Indigenous Representation: Formalizing Observational Knowledge In Arctic Uranium Exploration

Thomas Schilling (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

09:15

The Hau of the Theft

Daniel Bradburd (Clarkson University)

09:30

Discussant

Sylvia J Yanagisako (Stanford University)

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