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“…Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Maps, Figures, and Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- Glossary -- Introduction: The Age of Silver -- 1 Silver Connections and Trans-imperial Involvement -- 1.1 Treasure Shipments, "Piracy" and Trade -- 1.2 The Silver Coveted: Bankers and Merchants -- 1.3 Smuggling and Merchants' Connivance -- 1.4 The Slave Trade -- 1.5 Vale un Potosí [To Be Worth a Potosí]: Labor in the Mountain -- 2 The Chapters -- Annex -- Bibliography -- Part 1 Geology, Sacred Spaces, Political and Technical Knowledge -- Chapter 1 Potosí Revisited: Toward a Pre-Hispanic Potosí -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Great Silver Mountain -- 3 The Spanish "Discovery" of 1545 -- 4 Mines of the Sun and
Taboos -- 4.1 Wari Viracocha -- 5 The Miners of the Collasuyu and Their Divinities -- 5.1 The Island of the Sun -- 5.2 The Collas and the Mines -- 6 Potosí, God of the Cerro, the Incas, and the Tiwanaku Background -- 7 Felines -- 8 By Way of Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Primary Sources -- Bibliography -- Chapter 2 The Potosí Mita and the Geological Foundations of a Colonial Debate -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Andean Histories and Political Geology -- 3 Potosí and the Politics of Geological Knowledge in Early Colonial Writings -- 4 Geological Discourse and the Eighteenth-Century Debate over Potosí's Mita -- 5 Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- Primary Sources -- Bibliography -- Chapter 3 Reading along the Administrative Grain: Knowledge Production and the Investigation of Refining Improvements in Late Sixteenth-Century Potosí -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Officials and Mineros in the Context of Ortiz de Zárate's Inspections -- 3 Speaking "Like a State" or as a Technical Expert? …”
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