Selling Our Death Masks [electronic resource] : Cash-For-Gold in the Age of Austerity

A radical historical ethnography on the meaning of a fundamentally new physical landscape of our age of austerity: cash-for-gold shops that numerically exploded in the wake of the worst economic crisis of our times. 1. Compro Oro, Dinero Ya!: Cash-for-gold In Spain -- 2. A Very Short History Of The Pawnshop -- 3. The Golden Yesenia -- 4. At The Bottom Of The Mine -- 5. Cash For A Golden Dawn -- The End: Flesh And Bone -- Endnotes. Yesenia Barragan. Yesenia Barragan is a writer, activist, and PhD Candidate in Latin American History at Columbia University Are we pawning our golden immortality for a fistful of cash?