Fear and Fortune
Spirit Worlds and Emerging Economies in the Mongolian Gold Rush
Mongolia over the last decade has seen a substantial and ongoing gold rush. The widespread mining of gold looks at first glance to be a blessing for a desperately poor and largely pastoralist country where people's lives were disrupted by the end of the USSR and tens of millions of livestock were killed in devastating droughts in the early 2000s. Volatility and uncertainty as well as political and economic turmoil led many people to join the hopeful search for gold. This activity, born out of uncertain times, poses an intense moral problem; in the land of dust, disturbing the ground and extracting the precious metal is widely believed to have…
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- ISBN: 978-1-5017-0811-4
- EAN: 9781501708114
- Produktnummer: 23653614
- Verlag: Cornell University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Seitenangabe: 180 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 7'149 KB
- Sonstiges: Ab 18 J.
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Mette M. High
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