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Silver : Transformational Matter.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hills, Helen.
- Series:
- Proceedings of the British Academy Series:Themed Volumes of Essays in the Humanities and Social Sciences
- Proceedings of the British Academy Series:Themed Volumes of Essays in the Humanities and Social Sciences ; v.259
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (274 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Silver
- Place of Publication:
- London : British Academy, 2024.
- Summary:
- Silver: Transformational Matter presents essays by anthropologists, art historians, and historians which explore the history of silver, incorporating mining, trade, colonialism, and Indigenous expertise.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half-title
- Series information
- Title page
- Copyright information
- Table of contents
- List of figures
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Glossary
- Introduction: Forging Silver Connections
- Organisation of the volume
- Part I: Silver: Mining, Indigenous Knowledge, and Colonialism
- 1 Gold, Silver, Power, and Abuse: The Incorporation and Erasure of Indigenous Knowledges in Spanish Colonial Metalwork
- Land, Labour, and Language in Colonial Mining and Metallurgy
- Historical Remediations: Reading Taíno Presence and Absence in Colonial Archives
- Translation and Mistranslation: Documenting Andean Technical Literacies
- Conclusions
- 2 The Atocha's Silver, c. 1622: Ingots, Aquillas, and the Intersection of Values
- 3 Flowing Silver and Ephemeral Cities: Working the Ruins of Colonial Silver Mines
- Introduction: Mining in Sud Lípez, Bolivia
- Materiality, Metals, and Silver in the Andes and Elsewhere
- The Mining Ruins of Lípez
- The Story of María Picha Picha and the Demise of San Antonio
- Working in the Ruins at Buena Vista
- 'Liquid Silver'
- Part II: Silver and the Moon
- 4 Silver, the Lunar Metal
- Theoretical Background
- Practical Issues
- The Moon
- Silver's Origins
- The Refined Metal
- The Variable Planet
- Titian's Diana and Actaeon
- Coda
- 5 How the World Shines Silver in the Moonlight
- Prelude
- The Ray and the Beam
- Our Light Materials
- Gold and Silver
- On Reflection
- Part III: Silver Profits: Trade, Trust, and Trickery
- 6 Between Early Modern Technology and Moral Agenda: Counterfeiting and Assaying of Silver in 16th- Century Europe
- Introduction
- The Trouble with Silver Bullion
- History of and Materials for Counterfeiting Silver
- Alchemist and/or Assayer?
- Breeding Silver out of Lead
- Samuel Zimmermann's Books for Assayers.
- Counterfeiting Silver Coins: Amalgamation of Mercury
- Zimmermann's Alchemy
- 7 Mutant Money: The Globe- Trotting Career of 17th-Century Silver Cash
- Trust Me
- A Mouthful of Kopeks
- A Global Test: The Great Potosí Mint Fraud of the 1640s
- Conclusion: Mutant Money
- Part IV Exquisite Effects
- 8 Fidda (Silver): On the Active Life of Matter
- Acknowledgements
- 9 Weaving Silver: Brilliance and Sheen in Colonial Andean Textiles
- Brilliance and Lustre
- Silver and Textiles in the Andes
- Making Silver Thread in Europe
- Silver Threads in the Andes
- Weaving with Silver in Europe
- Silver in Andean Garments
- Brilliance and Sheen without Silver
- Illa
- Conclusion
- 10 Adam van Vianen and Ghosts of Silver in the Late Renaissance World
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-890985-3
- 1-80596-103-9
- 0-19-890986-1
- OCLC:
- 1528357916
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