Fear and Fortune High Mette M.
Fear and Fortune High Mette M. Mongolia over the last decade has seen a substantial and ongoing gold rush. Volatility and uncertainty as well as political and economic turmoil led many people to join…
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Fear and Fortune High Mette M.
Mongolia over the last decade has seen a substantial and ongoing gold rush. Volatility and uncertainty as well as political and economic turmoil led many people to join the hopeful search for gold. The widespread mining of gold looks at first glance to be a blessing for a desperately poor and largely pastoralist country where people's lives were disrupted by the end of the USSR and tens of millions of livestock were killed in devastating droughts in the early 2000s.
With gold retaining strong ties to the landscape and its many spirit beings, the fortune of the precious metal is inseparable from the fears that surround mining. This activity, born out of uncertain times, poses an intense moral problem; in the "land of dust," disturbing the ground and extracting the precious metal is widely believed to have calamitous consequences. Tracing the continuities and discontinuities between
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