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.

We eat the mines and the mines eat us: Dependency and exploitation in Bolivian tin mines

Nash, June C.

Columbia University Press

We Eat the Mines and the Mines Eat Us: Dependency and Exploitation in Bolivian Tin Mines

This account of life in the Bolivian tin mines has been revised to include a new preface by the author that brings the text up to date. It addresses new issues in anthropology and recounts the author's findings during her most recent visit to Bolivia.

Business & Money

Economics

Columbia Univ. Pr.

This book describes and analyzes changes taking place in the 1950s and 1960s in the Tzeltal community of Amatenango del Valle (Tzo?ontahal). These changes were in the economy, relationships to the Mexican government and the surrounding Ladino population, political leadership, and religion. Villagers were beginning to break the pattern of Ladino entrepreneurship through their own co-operatives (trucking co-op and co-op store). Political leadership, which had traditionally rested on the principle of age grading, had in some cases been given to young persons on grounds of their ability to write and speak Spanish. Literacy was increasing among the young people. Belief in the overall importance of the ancestors for the well-being of the community had given way to strong skepticism. As a result certain ceremonies had been dropped, and the healing practitioners were no longer considered as benevolent religious agents but were through-out suspected of witchcraft.

In the eyes of the ancestors;: Belief and behavior in a Maya community,

Yale University Press

Mayan Visions

A significant work by one of anthropology's most important scholars, this book provides an introduction to the Chiapas Mayan community of Mexico, better known for their role in the Zapatista Rebellion.

Mayan Visions: The Quest for Autonomy in an Age of Globalization

History

Americas

Routledge

<p>A significant work by one of anthropology's most important scholars, this book provides an introduction to the Chiapas Mayan community of Mexico, better known for their role in the Zapatista Rebellion.</p>

This is a book about the impact of high tech defense production on individuals, families, and communities. It analyzes the restructuring of an American industry around high tech defense production, and the effect of this restructuring on employment opportunities and on the redistribution of profits. The author is concerned with the construction of corporate hegemony which she defines in Gramscian terms as leadership by large corporations, establishing a pattern for industrial organization. Focusing on regional economic history and corporate policy, Dr. Nash identifies the interconnected issues that bear on the relationship between industrial transformation and social life, on the restructuring of the American economy, and the consequences of militarization and commercialization on the family and community.

From Tank Town to High Tech: The Clash of Community and Industrial Cycles (Suny Series in the Anthropology of Work)

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

State Univ of New York Pr

<p>This is a book about the impact of high tech defense production on individuals, families, and communities. It analyzes the restructuring of an American industry around high tech defense production, and the effect of this restructuring on employment opportunities and on the redistribution of profits. The author is concerned with the construction of corporate hegemony which she defines in Gramscian terms as leadership by large corporations, establishing a pattern for industrial organization. Focusing on regional economic history and corporate policy, Dr. Nash identifies the interconnected issues that bear on the relationship between industrial transformation and social life, on the restructuring of the American economy, and the consequences of militarization and commercialization on the family and community.</p>

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We eat the mines and the mines eat us: Dependency and exploitation in Bolivian tin mines

We Eat the Mines and the Mines Eat Us: Dependency and Exploitation in Bolivian Tin Mines

In the eyes of the ancestors;: Belief and behavior in a Maya community,

Mayan Visions: The Quest for Autonomy in an Age of Globalization

Mayan Visions

From Tank Town to High Tech: The Clash of Community and Industrial Cycles (Suny Series in the Anthropology of Work)

From Tank Town to High Tech: The Clash of Community and Industrial Cycles (Suny Series in the Anthropology of Work)

Mayan Visions: The Quest for Autonomy in an Age of Globalization