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Anita Raychawdhuri

is an Assistant Professor at the University of Houston Downtown. She is a short-term fellow with the Folger Shakespeare Library from 2023-2024.

The Meaning of Mining from Agricola to Zárate

A woodcut showing a series of men working a landscape doing various jobs.

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The Meaning of Mining from Agricola to Zárate

Posted July 4, 2024

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Anita Raychawdhuri

Fellow Anita Raychawdhuri explores how mining was imagined in the Early Modern world by examining images and tales of colonial Peru.