Cataloging minerals, part 1: The categories of colonialism and extraction

Mineral wealth has motivated and funded extractionist empires, often at the expense of local communities, labor, environments, and public health. Yet those connections are not recorded in traditional mineral catalogs, which treat specimens as divorced from context. This essay examines the roots of t...

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Main Authors: Selby Hearth, Carrie Robbins
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Leicester 2024-12-01
Series:Museum & Society
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Online Access:https://journals.le.ac.uk/index.php/mas/article/view/4599
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