Book Cover -- Title -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- List of contributors -- Foreword -- Social approaches to the archaeology and anthropology of mining A.BERNARD KNAPP -- Historical archaeology -- The fabric and structure of Australian mining settlements PETER BELL -- Gender and community structure on Australian colonial goldfields SUSAN LAWRENCE -- Bedroom politics: ladies of the night and men of the day ALEXY SIMMONS -- Power and the industrial mining community in the American West DONALD L.HARDESTY -- The mining camp as community WILLIAM A.DOUGLASS -- Mining, colonialism and culture contact: European miners and the indigenous population in the sixteenth-century Arctic ROBERT M.EHRENREICH -- Anthropology and social history -- 'Find the ekijunjumira': iron mine discovery, ownership and power among the Toro of Uganda S.TERRY CHILDS -- Mining as microcosm in precolonial sub-Saharan Africa: an overview EUGENIA W.HERBERT -- A risky business: death, injury and religion in Cornish mining c. 1780 1870 JOHN RULE -- Silver shackles and copper collars: race, class and labor in the Arizona mining industry from the eighteenth century until World War II THOMAS E.SHERIDAN -- Prehistory and protohistory -- Producing copper in the eastern Alps during the second millennium BC STEPHEN SHENNAN -- Prehistoric copper mining in the context of emerging community craft specialization in northeast Thailand VINCENT C.PIGOTT -- Small-scale mining and smelting in ancient Cyprus VASILIKI KASSIANIDOU -- Exploiting the desert frontier: the logistics and politics of ancient Egyptian mining expeditions IAN SHAW -- Gold-miners and mining at Bir Umm Fawakhir CAROL MEYER -- Overviews -- On the value of mixed methods in studying mining communities DAVID KILLICK -- Mining communities, chanes operatoires and sociotechnical systems BRYAN PFAFFENBERGER -- Index.