Gold in the Americas

Forewords / Claire Simard and Bertrand-Pierre Galey PREFACE: Body of the Americas / Dany Laferriere 1: The Americas The Gold of the Americas / Jose Lopez Arellano 2: The Routes to Gold "Precious but Perilous Things": Gold and Colonialism in Spanish and Portuguese America / Daviken Studnicki-Gizbert; The Myth of El Dorado: Voyagers. Adventurers, and Explorers / CIara-Isabel Botero; Africa and Africans in the Colonial Mining World / Daviken Studnicki-Gizbert; Mukis -Masters of the Andean Mines / Daviken Studnicki-Gizbert 3: The Conquerors The Conquistadors / Paz Cabello-Carro; Fray Bartolome de las Casas (1484-1566), Or the Debate Surrounding the legitimacy of the Spanish Conquest / Miguel Luque Talavan; The Gold of the Girona / Winifred Glover; The Treasures of the Spanish Galleons on the Maritime Routes / Letizia Arbeteta Mira 4: Artisans of Gold The Origin of Metallurgy in North America / Claude Chapdelaine; The Metallurgy Practised at the Huacas de Moche Site / Claude Chapdelaine; The Gold of the Andes: From Decoration to Divine Power / Claude Chapdelaine; Costic Teocuitlatl, Gold of the Aztecs / Louise-l. Paradis; Mutatis mutandis. The Symbolism of Transmutation in Muisca Votive Figurines / Roberto Lleras; A Mochica Ritual Garment / Santiago Uceda Castillo 5: The Gold Rushes The California Gold Rush: El Dorado Captured, California Redeemed / Paul-Christiaan Klieger; The Klondike Gold Rush, 1897-98 / Michael Gates; Gold Rushes in Quebec / Jose Lopez Arellano; Fool's Gold / Yves Chretien. Helene cote. Richard Fiset. Gilles Samson 6: Gold Seekers of Today Gold Mining on the Pacific Coast of Colombia: Rio Timbiqui / Michael Taussig 7: Geology Gold: From Source to Final Products / Jayanta Guha and Benoit Dube; The Buisson d'or / Michel Guiraud; Mineral Exploration in the Twenty-first Century / Jean-Marc Lulin; Agnico-Eagle Mines Limited / Eberhard Scherkus; The Eleonore Project: Creating the Future! / Claude-Francois Lemasson 8: Gold, Power, and Commerce The Financial