All Exhibit Items

1. Spreading newly made tailings inside the peat pit

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Attribution:: Nancy Peluso
Date:: (c) 2015
Exhibit Tags:: Making a Mine

2. Placing the flexible pipes to suction gold slurry

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Attribution:: Nancy Peluso
Date:: (c) 2015

3. Carpeting the sluice

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Attribution:: Nancy Peluso
Date:: (c) 2015
Exhibit Tags:: Making a Mine

4. The longest sluice

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Attribution:: Nancy Peluso
Date:: (c) 2015
Exhibit Tags:: Making a Mine

5. The indispensable mechanic

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Attribution:: Nancy Peluso
Date:: (c) 2015
Exhibit Tags:: At Work in the Mines

6. Sluice ready, early morning

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Attribution:: Nancy Peluso
Date:: (c) 2015
Exhibit Tags:: At Work in the Mines

7. Raft mining crew

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Attribution:: Nancy Peluso
Date:: (c) 2015
Exhibit Tags:: At Work in the Mines

8. Pit crew in sync

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Attribution:: Nancy Peluso
Date:: (c) 2015
Exhibit Tags:: At Work in the Mines

9. Panner in a small-scale mine

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Attribution:: Nancy Peluso
Date:: (c) 2015
Exhibit Tags:: Laboring Bodies and Landscapes

10. Uncanny refreshment

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Attribution:: Nancy Peluso
Date:: (c) 2015
Exhibit Tags:: Laboring Bodies and Landscapes

11. Working the slurry base

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Attribution:: Nancy Peluso
Date:: (c) 2015
Exhibit Tags:: Laboring Bodies and Landscapes

12. A light dusting

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Attribution:: Nancy Peluso
Date:: (c) 2015
Exhibit Tags:: Laboring Bodies and Landscapes

13. On golden pond

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Attribution:: Nancy Peluso
Date:: (c) 2015
Exhibit Tags:: Laboring Bodies and Landscapes

14. Uprooting

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Attribution:: Nancy Peluso
Date:: (c) 2015
Exhibit Tags:: Laboring Bodies and Landscapes

15. Hillside mining community

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Attribution:: Nancy Peluso
Date:: (c) 2015
Exhibit Tags:: Everyday Life in a Mining Camp

16. Carrier

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Attribution:: Nancy Peluso
Date:: (c) 2015
Exhibit Tags:: Everyday Life in a Mining Camp

17. Inside the mill, separating gold from ore

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Attribution:: Nancy Peluso
Date:: (c) 2015
Exhibit Tags:: Workers and Technology

18. Women panning the river

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Attribution:: Nancy Peluso
Date:: (c) 2015
Exhibit Tags:: Workers and Technology

19. Entanglements

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Attribution:: Nancy Peluso
Date:: (c) 2015
Exhibit Tags:: Workers and Technology

20. Lunch on site

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Attribution:: Nancy Peluso
Date:: (c) 2015
Exhibit Tags:: Everyday Life in a Mining Camp

21. On the way to work

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Attribution:: Nancy Peluso
Date:: (c) 2015
Exhibit Tags:: Workers and Technology

22. Mining laborer, ice-pop break

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Attribution:: Nancy Peluso
Date:: (c) 2015
Exhibit Tags:: Portraits of a Mining Community

23. Industrial scale slucing

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Attribution:: Nancy Peluso
Date:: (c) 2015
Exhibit Tags:: Workers and Technology

24. Tapping the water supply

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Attribution:: Nancy Peluso
Date:: (c) 2015
Exhibit Tags:: Workers and Technology

25. Men and their machine

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Attribution:: Nancy Peluso
Date:: (c) 2015
Exhibit Tags:: Workers and Technology

26. Crew buddies

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Attribution:: Nancy Peluso
Date:: (c) 2015
Exhibit Tags:: Portraits of a Mining Community

27. Hard labor

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Attribution:: Nancy Peluso
Date:: (c) 2015
Exhibit Tags:: Portraits of a Mining Community

28. Below the cutting edge

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Attribution:: Nancy Peluso
Date:: (c) 2015
Exhibit Tags:: Life and Death on the Edges

29. Crew boss

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Attribution:: Nancy Peluso
Date:: (c) 2015
Exhibit Tags:: Portraits of a Mining Community

30. Landslide on the vertical frontier

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Attribution:: Nancy Peluso
Date:: (c) 2015
Exhibit Tags:: Life and Death on the Edges

31. Undermining assessment

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Attribution:: Nancy Peluso
Date:: (c) 2015
Exhibit Tags:: Life and Death on the Edges

32. Working vertically

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Attribution:: Nancy Peluso
Date:: (c) 2015
Exhibit Tags:: Life and Death on the Edges

33. Tipping point

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Attribution:: Nancy Peluso
Date:: (c) 2015
Exhibit Tags:: Life and Death on the Edges

34. Watcher 1

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Attribution:: Nancy Peluso
Date:: (c) 2015
Exhibit Tags:: Life and Death on the Edges

35. On the edge

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Attribution:: Nancy Peluso
Date:: (c) 2015
Exhibit Tags:: Life and Death on the Edges

36. Memorial jar at accident site

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Attribution:: Nancy Peluso
Date:: (c) 2015
Exhibit Tags:: Life and Death on the Edges

37. The panner's golden dream

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Attribution:: Nancy Peluso
Date:: (c) 2015

38. The Gold Farmers

Attribution:: Nancy Peluso

39. Nancy Peluso in East Singkawang

Exhibit Tags:: Introduction

40. Three danger zones in one

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Attribution:: Nancy Peluso
Date:: (c) 2015
Exhibit Tags:: Life and Death on the Edges

41. Immersion

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Attribution:: Nancy Peluso
Date:: (c) 2015
Exhibit Tags:: Laboring Bodies and Landscapes

42. Header Image

43. 43-2779

44. Workday's end, removing the carpets of hope

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Attribution:: Nancy Peluso
Date:: (c) 2015
Exhibit Tags:: At Work in the Mines and Introduction

45. Mining worker

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Exhibit Tags:: Introduction

46. Morning coffee

Exhibit Tags:: Introduction

47. Clearing the pit's floor, former peat forest

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Attribution:: Nancy Peluso
Date:: (c) 2015
Exhibit Tags:: Making a Mine

48. Morning prep: recycling sluice carpets

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Attribution:: Nancy Peluso
Date:: (c) 2015
Exhibit Tags:: Making a Mine

49. Creating a reservoir for sprayers

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Attribution:: Nancy Peluso
Date:: (c) 2015
Exhibit Tags:: Making a Mine

50. In the unprotected tunnel mine

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Attribution:: Nancy Peluso
Date:: (c) 2015
Exhibit Tags:: Making a Mine

51. A new pit in an old rubber garden

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Attribution:: Nancy Peluso
Date:: (c) 2015
Exhibit Tags:: Making a Mine

52. Into the tunnel

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Attribution:: Nancy Peluso
Date:: (c) 2015
Exhibit Tags:: Making a Mine

53. A new pit in an old rubber garden

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Attribution:: Nancy Peluso
Date:: (c) 2015

54. Creating slurry from a wall of peat

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Attribution:: Nancy Peluso
Date:: (c) 2015
Exhibit Tags:: At Work in the Mines

55. Extracting peat forest roots

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Attribution:: Nancy Peluso
Date:: (c) 2015
Exhibit Tags:: At Work in the Mines

56. Clearing the pit's rocky bottom

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Attribution:: Nancy Peluso
Date:: (c) 2015
Exhibit Tags:: At Work in the Mines

57. Tandem sprayers

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Attribution:: Nancy Peluso
Date:: (c) 2015
Exhibit Tags:: At Work in the Mines

58. First panning, straight from the carpets

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Attribution:: Nancy Peluso
Date:: (c) 2015

59. A 12-man crew pausing after breakfast

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Attribution:: Nancy Peluso
Date:: (c) 2015
Exhibit Tags:: Everyday Life in a Mining Camp

60. Collecting ores from tunnel mine

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Attribution:: Nancy Peluso
Date:: (c) 2015
Exhibit Tags:: At Work in the Mines

61. Second Home, dormitory

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Attribution:: Nancy Peluso
Date:: (c) 2015
Exhibit Tags:: Everyday Life in a Mining Camp

62. Mattress delivery

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Attribution:: Nancy Peluso
Date:: (c) 2015
Exhibit Tags:: Everyday Life in a Mining Camp

63. Equipment hauling

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Attribution:: Nancy Peluso
Date:: (c) 2015
Exhibit Tags:: Everyday Life in a Mining Camp

64. The shop and home base

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Attribution:: Nancy Peluso
Date:: (c) 2015

65. Food stall scene

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Attribution:: Nancy Peluso
Date:: (c) 2015

66. Climbing an unstable pit wall

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Attribution:: Nancy Peluso
Date:: (c) 2015
Exhibit Tags:: Life and Death on the Edges

67. A good day on the surface

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Attribution:: Nancy Peluso
Date:: (c) 2015
Exhibit Tags:: Portraits of a Mining Community

68. Mining laborer, day's end

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Attribution:: Nancy Peluso
Date:: (c) 2015
Exhibit Tags:: Portraits of a Mining Community

69. A boss with her son

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Attribution:: Nancy Peluso
Date:: (c) 2015
Exhibit Tags:: Portraits of a Mining Community

70. Watcher and watched

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Attribution:: Nancy Peluso
Date:: (c) 2015
Exhibit Tags:: Life and Death on the Edges

71. Watcher 2

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Attribution:: Nancy Peluso
Date:: (c) 2015
Exhibit Tags:: Life and Death on the Edges

72. The Gold Farmers

Description:: Men working in the pits with hoses and muck to their knees.
Attribution:: Nancy Peluso
Date:: (c) 2015

73. Megazine Cover

74. The look

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Attribution:: Nancy Peluso
Date:: (c) 2015
Exhibit Tags:: Laboring Bodies and Landscapes

75. Edges

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Attribution:: Nancy Peluso
Date:: (c) 2015
Exhibit Tags:: Laboring Bodies and Landscapes

76. In it, of it

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Attribution:: Nancy Peluso
Date:: (c) 2015
Exhibit Tags:: Laboring Bodies and Landscapes

77. From swamp forest to mega mining pit, Ketapang

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Attribution:: Nancy Peluso
Date:: (c) 2015
Exhibit Tags:: West Kalimantan's extractions

78. Road to a forest settlement, Ketapang

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Attribution:: Nancy Peluso
Date:: (c) 2015
Exhibit Tags:: West Kalimantan's extractions

79. Mount Raya from Buduk mining area

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Attribution:: Nancy Peluso
Date:: (c) 2015
Exhibit Tags:: West Kalimantan's extractions

80. The look1

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Attribution:: Nancy Peluso
Date:: (c) 2015

81. Building community on the tailings

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Attribution:: Nancy Peluso
Date:: (c) 2015
Exhibit Tags:: Communities on the Tailings

82. Home sweet home (and a panning pond)

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Attribution:: Nancy Peluso
Date:: (c) 2015
Exhibit Tags:: Communities on the Tailings

83. Shipping point, Raya River

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Attribution:: Nancy Peluso
Date:: (c) 2015
Exhibit Tags:: West Kalimantan's extractions

84. Abandoned crew housing

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Attribution:: Nancy Peluso
Date:: (c) 2015
Exhibit Tags:: Communities on the Tailings

85. Log raft on the Raya River

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Attribution:: Nancy Peluso
Date:: (c) 2015
Exhibit Tags:: West Kalimantan's extractions

86. Indonesia

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Exhibit Tags:: West Kalimantan's extractions

87. Repurposing a smallholder rubber garden

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Attribution:: Nancy Peluso
Date:: (c) 2015
Exhibit Tags:: Small-scale Mining's Extractive Landscapes

88. Pit panorama (Click to view full-screen)

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Attribution:: Nancy Peluso
Date:: (c) 2015
Exhibit Tags:: Communities on the Tailings

89. The means of landscape production

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Attribution:: Nancy Peluso
Date:: (c) 2015
Exhibit Tags:: Small-scale Mining's Extractive Landscapes

90. No roads across the peat swamp tailings

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Attribution:: Nancy Peluso
Date:: (c) 2015
Exhibit Tags:: Communities on the Tailings

91. Pit stops, lower and upper levels

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Attribution:: Nancy Peluso
Date:: (c) 2015
Exhibit Tags:: Communities on the Tailings

92. Barren playground

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Attribution:: Nancy Peluso
Date:: (c) 2015
Exhibit Tags:: Communities on the Tailings

93. No way back to the forest

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Attribution:: Nancy Peluso
Date:: (c) 2015
Exhibit Tags:: Communities on the Tailings

94. Gimme shelter

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Attribution:: Nancy Peluso
Date:: (c) 2015
Exhibit Tags:: Communities on the Tailings

95. From tailings to oil palm plantation

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Attribution:: Nancy Peluso
Date:: (c) 2015
Exhibit Tags:: Small-scale Mining's Extractive Landscapes

96. Final consolidation; expert panner

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Attribution:: Nancy Peluso
Date:: (c) 2015
Exhibit Tags:: The Gold Panning Specialists

97. Steamy lake in place of a peat swamp

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Attribution:: Nancy Peluso
Date:: (c) 2015
Exhibit Tags:: Small-scale Mining's Extractive Landscapes

98. Gold ball in a mercury wrapping

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Attribution:: Nancy Peluso
Date:: (c) 2015
Exhibit Tags:: The Gold Panning Specialists

99. Sunrise on a new lake

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Attribution:: Nancy Peluso
Date:: (c) 2015
Exhibit Tags:: Small-scale Mining's Extractive Landscapes

100. Lazy river of slurry

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Attribution:: Nancy Peluso
Date:: (c) 2015
Exhibit Tags:: Small-scale Mining's Extractive Landscapes

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All Exhibit Items 139 items

1. Spreading newly made tailings inside the peat pit

2. Placing the flexible pipes to suction gold slurry

3. Carpeting the sluice

4. The longest sluice

5. The indispensable mechanic

6. Sluice ready, early morning

7. Raft mining crew

8. Pit crew in sync

9. Panner in a small-scale mine

10. Uncanny refreshment

11. Working the slurry base

12. A light dusting

13. On golden pond

14. Uprooting

15. Hillside mining community

16. Carrier

17. Inside the mill, separating gold from ore

18. Women panning the river

19. Entanglements

20. Lunch on site

21. On the way to work

22. Mining laborer, ice-pop break

23. Industrial scale slucing

24. Tapping the water supply

25. Men and their machine

26. Crew buddies

27. Hard labor

28. Below the cutting edge

29. Crew boss

30. Landslide on the vertical frontier

31. Undermining assessment

32. Working vertically

33. Tipping point

34. Watcher 1

35. On the edge

36. Memorial jar at accident site

37. The panner's golden dream

38. The Gold Farmers

39. Nancy Peluso in East Singkawang

40. Three danger zones in one

41. Immersion

42. Header Image

43. 43-2779

44. Workday's end, removing the carpets of hope

45. Mining worker

46. Morning coffee

47. Clearing the pit's floor, former peat forest

48. Morning prep: recycling sluice carpets

49. Creating a reservoir for sprayers

50. In the unprotected tunnel mine

51. A new pit in an old rubber garden

52. Into the tunnel

53. A new pit in an old rubber garden

54. Creating slurry from a wall of peat

55. Extracting peat forest roots

56. Clearing the pit's rocky bottom

57. Tandem sprayers

58. First panning, straight from the carpets

59. A 12-man crew pausing after breakfast

60. Collecting ores from tunnel mine

61. Second Home, dormitory

62. Mattress delivery

63. Equipment hauling

64. The shop and home base

65. Food stall scene

66. Climbing an unstable pit wall

67. A good day on the surface

68. Mining laborer, day's end

69. A boss with her son

70. Watcher and watched

71. Watcher 2

72. The Gold Farmers

73. Megazine Cover

74. The look

75. Edges

76. In it, of it

77. From swamp forest to mega mining pit, Ketapang

78. Road to a forest settlement, Ketapang