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Not ours alone : patrimony, value, and collectivity in contemporary Mexico / Elizabeth Emma Ferry.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ferry, Elizabeth Emma.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cooperativa Minera Santa Fe de Guanajuato--History.
- Cooperativa Minera Santa Fe de Guanajuato.
- Miners--Mexico--Guanajuato (State).
- Miners.
- Cooperative societies--Mexico--Guanajuato (State)--History.
- Cooperative societies.
- Mineral industries--Mexico--Guanajuato (State)--History.
- Mineral industries.
- Silver mines and mining--Mexico--Guanajuato (State)--History.
- Silver mines and mining.
- Globalization.
- Guanajuato (Mexico : State)--Social conditions.
- Guanajuato (Mexico : State).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (574 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Columbia University Press, c2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Front matter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1. Introduction: Inalienability, Value, and Collectivity
- Chapter 2. The Santa Fe Cooperative in Guanajuato, Mexico
- chapter 3 Labor, History, and Historical Consciousness
- Chapter 4. Recent Challenges and Responses
- Chapter 5. Realms of Patrimony: Mine and House
- Chapter 6. Patrimony, Power, and Ideology
- Chapter 7. Veins of Value, Rocks of Renown: An Anthropology of Mined Substances
- Chapter 8. Mexican Languages of Patrimony: Land, Subsoil, "Culture"
- Chapter 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
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-267) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780231507141
- 0231507143
- OCLC:
- 818856978
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