Elizabeth Ferry

Elizabeth Ferry is a Professor of Anthropology at Brandeis University, specializing in the intersections of value, materiality, mining, and finance. Her research emphasizes fieldwork in Mexico, Colombia, and the United States, focusing on topics such as silver mining, gold mining cooperatives, and resource temporalities.

• University: Brandeis University
• Rank: Professor
• Email: ferry@brandeis.edu

Her work explores how communities conceptualize non-renewable resources as inalienable property, as seen in her first book analyzing the Santa Fe silver mining cooperative in Guanajuato, Mexico. She examines paradoxes of collectivity and patrimony in neoliberal contexts.

Recent publications highlight the dynamics of mineral value creation, small-scale mining practices, and the social implications of resource extraction. Her research bridges economic anthropology with material culture studies.

For further information, she can be contacted at ferry@brandeis.edu or followed via her WordPress site.