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The study of German mining and metallurgy has focused overwhelmingly on labor, capitalism, and progressive engineering and earth science. This book addresses prospecting practices and mining culture. Using the divining, or dowsing rod as a means of exposing miner beliefs, it argues that a robust vernacular science preceded institutionalized geology in Saxony, and that the Freiberg Mining Academy (f.1765) became a site for the synthesis of tradition and new science. The tacit knowledge of dowsing was the mark of the experienced prospector, and rather than decline in importance through the Enlightenment, the practice transformed from a study of mineral vapors into an experimental branch of geophysics. Mining administrations openly hired practitioners through the eighteenth century.

Metallurgy --- Dowsing --- Geochemical prospecting --- Geophysics --- History

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Cet ouvrage nous introduit dans un domaine largement méconnu, fascinant pour beaucoup, irritant pour certains, suspect pour d’autres. Les sourciers radiesthésistes de la société rurale franc-comtoise sont des révélateurs d’eau, mais aussi de la société dans ce qu’elle ne dit pas d’elle-même ou, du moins, sans l’intermédiaire de la baguette de coudrier ou du pendule. L’un des intérêts de ce livre est la contribution originale apportée au domaine encore peu exploré d’une anthropologie du corps et du geste. Par ailleurs, il pose la question de la légitimité d’un savoir populaire mis au service de la communauté.

Radiesthesia --- Dowsing --- Country life --- #SBIB:39A9 --- #SBIB:39A10 --- Administrative law --- -Jurisdiction, Territorial --- -Local government --- -Local administration --- Township government --- Territorial jurisdiction --- Administration --- Law, Administrative --- Public administration --- Medische antropologie / gezondheid / handicaps --- Antropologie: religie, riten, magie, hekserij --- Law and legislation --- -Law and legislation --- Subnational governments --- Administrative and political divisions --- Decentralization in government --- Territory, National --- Public law --- Constitutional law --- -Anthropology --- eau --- populaire --- village --- société --- communauté --- social --- paysan --- rural --- Anthropology