We Eat the Mines and the Mines Eat Us Dependency and Exploitation in Bolivian Tin Mines
Heftet /
1993
/ Engelsk
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ISBN
9780231080514
Published
1993-04-01
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Age
P, 06
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
406
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June Nash is the author of I Spent My Life in the Mines.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
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.
The Miners' History; Belief and Behaviour in Family Life; Community Integration and Worker Solidarity; The Natural and the Supernatural Order; Conditions of Work in the Mine; Wages, Prices, and the Accumulation of Capital in Mining; Labour Conflict and Unionization; Community and Class Consciousness.
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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.
Product details
ISBN
9780231080514
Published
1993-04-01
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Age
P, 06
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
406
Author