Gold and Bateas: Visuality, Tactility, Representation, Politics

Elizabeth Ferry—is a professor of anthropology at Brandeis University, with interests in value, materiality, mining, and finance, and with fieldwork emphases in Mexico, Colombia, and the United States. She is the author of Not Ours Alone: Patrimony, Value and Collectivity in Contemporary Mexico (Columbia, 2005) and Minerals, Collecting and Value across the U.S.-Mexican Border (Indiana, 2013); co-editor, with Mandana Limbert, of Timely Assets: The Politics of Resources and Temporalities (SAR Press, 2008); and many articles.

Since the late 1980s, Stephen Ferry has covered social and political change, human rights, and the environment for National Geographic, GEO, Time, the New York Times, and other publications. Stephen's first book, I Am Rich Potosí: The Mountain That Eats Men (Monacelli Press, 1999), documents the lives of Quechua miners of Potosí, Bolivia. His second book, Violentology: A Manual of the Colombian Conflict (Umbrage, 2012), has become a referential work for the study of Colombian history, armed conflict, and human rights.