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Silver: Transformational Matter presents essays by anthropologists, art historians, and historians which explore the history of silver, incorporating mining, trade, colonialism, and Indigenous expertise.
List of contents
- List of Figures
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Glossary
- Introduction: Forging Silver Connections
- Part I: Silver: Mining, Indigenous Knowledge, and Colonialism
- 1: ALLISON MARGARET BIGELOW: Gold, Silver, Power, and Abuse: 'The Incorporation and Erasure of Indigenous Knowledges in Spanish Colonial Metalwork'
- 2: THOMAS B. F. CUMMINS: The Atocha's Silver ca.1622: Ingots, Aquillas, and the Intersection of Values
- 3: MAGGIE BOLTON: Flowing Silver and Ephemeral Cities: Working the Ruins of Colonial Silver Mines
- Part II: Silver and the Moon
- 4: SPIKE BUCKLOW: Silver, the Lunar Metal
- 5: TIM INGOLD: How the World Shines Silver in the Moonlight
- Part III: Silver Profits: Trade, Trust, and Trickery
- 6: SERGIUS KODERA: Between Early Modern Technology and Moral Agenda: Silver Counterfeiting and Assaying in Sixteenth-century Europe
- 7: KRIS LANE: Mutant Money: The Globe-trotting Career of Seventeenth-century Silver Cash
- Part IV: Exquisite Effects
- 8: AVINOAM SHALEM: Fidda (Silver): On the Active Life of Matter
- 9: ELENA PHIPPS: Weaving Silver: Brilliance and Sheen in Colonial Andean Textiles
- 10: RICHARD CHECKETTS: Adam van Vianen and Ghosts of Silver in the Late-Renaissance World
- Index
About the author
Helen Hills is Professor Emerita at the University of York, where she became the first woman Professor of History of Art in 2008. She has published widely on Italian baroque art and architecture, gender and architecture, and has particular interests in the inter-relationships amongst religious practices, architecture, social class, gender, and sexuality. Her work seeks to push the boundaries of the discipline.
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.
