We Eat the Mines and the Mines Eat Us: Dependency and Exploitation in Bolivian Tin Mines
In this powerful anthropological study of a Bolivian tin mining town, Nash explores the influence of modern industrialization on the traditional culture of Quechua-and-Aymara-speaking Indians.\ \ More than an anthropological account of indigenous miners in far off Bolivia, the book is a serious rendering of the contemporary social, economic, and political reality at the industrial world periphery. (Technology and Culture)\ \ \ \ "For a combination of careful...
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In this powerful anthropological study of a Bolivian tin mining town, Nash explores the influence of modern industrialization on the traditional culture of Quechua-and-Aymara-speaking Indians. Technology and Culture More than an anthropological account of indigenous miners in far off Bolivia, the book is a serious rendering of the contemporary social, economic, and political reality at the industrial world periphery.
PrefacePreface to the Centennial EditionCh. 1Introduction1Ch. 2The Miners' History17Ch. 3Belief and Behavior in Family Life57Ch. 4Community Integration and Worker Solidarity87Ch. 5The Natural and the Supernatural Order121Ch. 6Conditions of Work in the Mine170Ch. 7Wages, Prices, and the Accumulation of Capital in Mining210Ch. 8Labor Conflict and Unionization256Ch. 9Community and Class Consciousness310Appendix335References339Index351
\ Technology and CultureMore than an anthropological account of indigenous miners in far off Bolivia, the book is a serious rendering of the contemporary social, economic, and political reality at the industrial world periphery.\ \ \ \ \ \ Technology and CultureMore than an anthropological account of indigenous miners in far off Bolivia, the book is a serious rendering of the contemporary social, economic, and political reality at the industrial world periphery.\ \
