Polluted money, polluted wealth: Emerging regimes of value in the Mongolian gold rush

American Ethnologist

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 676-688

  High, Mette M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Economic circuits; Gold mining; Materiality; Money; Mongolia; Pollution; Value

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887148609     PISSN: 00940496     EISSN: 15481425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/amet.12047     Document Type: Article

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