Article ID: CBB677637200

Mining culture, labour, and the state in early modern Saxony (2020)

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This article encourages cultural historians to shift their attention from the ‘origins’ of early modern mining culture in manual labour to seemingly derivative contexts such as the court, bureaucracy, and heritage collections. How did these sites fashion the idea of mining culture as a system of expressions, and how was this system used, with varying success, to align individuals and groups with the requirements of material production? The article identifies at least five layers of constitutive and interpretative work: The current, 'normalized' scholarship in a reunited Germany; the construction of liberal or socialist traditions in the East and the West after the war; the resurrection of both a mining State and mining Volk during the Nazi era; the system-building of ethnographers and heritage associations since the early 1800s; and attempts of the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth-century mining bureaucracy to homogenize workers’ dress, ritual, and language for judiciary, management, and economic planning purposes. Each layer produced their own archives, on which any investigation of early modern mining culture depends as an empirical base, and all of them offered their own attempts to construct a system of cultural expression from the particular stories, archival documents, songs, and dress elements that they collected and arranged.

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Authors & Contributors
Felten, Sebastian
Verberckmoes, Johan
Parak, Gisela
Soetaert, Alexander
Verreyken, Sophie
Thomas, Werner
Concepts
Historical method
Historiography
Mines and mining
Cultural history
Mathematics
Economic history
Time Periods
Early modern
18th century
19th century
21st century
20th century, late
17th century
Places
Saxony
Germany
Europe
Netherlands
France
India
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