Not Ours Alone Patrimony, Value, and Collectivity in Contemporary Mexico
Heftet /
2005
/ Engelsk
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780231132398
Publisert
2005-10-05
Utgiver
Vendor
Columbia University Press
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
296
Forfatter
Foreword by
Biographical note
Elizabeth Emma Ferry is assistant professor of anthropology at Brandeis University.
Elizabeth Ferry explores how members of the Santa Fe Cooperative, a silver mine in Mexico, give meaning to their labor in an era of rampant globalization. She analyzes the cooperative's practices and the importance of patrimonio (patrimony) in their understanding of work, tradition, and community. More specifically, she argues that patrimonio, a belief that certain resources are inalienable possessions of a local collective passed down to subsequent generations, has shaped and sustained the cooperative's sense of identity.
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Explores how members of Guanajuato's Santa Fe Cooperative, Mexico's cooperatively owned silver mine, give meaning to their labor in an era of globalization and neoliberalism. This work analyzes the cooperative's practices and the importance of patrimonio in their understanding of work, kinship, and morality.
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Foreword, by June Nash Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: Inalienability, Value, and Collectivity 2. The Santa Fe Cooperative in Guanajuato, Mexico 3. Labor, History, and Historical Consciousness 4. Recent Challenges and Responses 5. Realms of Patrimony: Mine and House 6. Patrimony, Power, and Ideology 7. Veins of Value, Rocks of Renown: An Anthropology of Mined Substances 8. Mexican Languages of Patrimony: Land, Subsoil, "Culture" 9. Conclusion: Not Whose Alone? Appendix 1. Historical Silver Prices from 1975 to 2002 Appendix 2. Aspects of Mineral Production in the Santa Fe Cooperative Notes Works Cited Index
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Elizabeth Ferry explores how members of the Santa Fe Cooperative, a silver mine in Mexico, give meaning to their labor in an era of rampant globalization. She analyzes the cooperative's practices and the importance of patrimonio (patrimony) in their understanding of work, tradition, and community. More specifically, she argues that patrimonio, a belief that certain resources are inalienable possessions of a local collective passed down to subsequent generations, has shaped and sustained the cooperative's sense of identity.
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780231132398
Publisert
2005-10-05
Utgiver
Vendor
Columbia University Press
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
296
Forfatter
Foreword by