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Informationen zum Autor Elizabeth Emma Ferry. Foreword by June Nash Klappentext Elizabeth Emma Ferry explores how members of Guanajuato's Santa Fe Cooperative, Mexico's only remaining cooperatively owned silver mine, give meaning to their labor in an era of rampant globalization and neoliberalism. Ferry analyzes the cooperative's practices and the importance of patrimonio (patrimony) in their understanding of work, kinship, and morality. More specifically, she argues that patrimonio, a belief that certain resources are inalienable possessions of a local collective passed down to subsequent generations, shapes and sustains the cooperative's sense of identity. In addition to descriptions of the miners' lives and views, Ferry examines patrimonio's influence on other aspects of Mexican life. Patrimonio, which both challenges and coexists with contemporary capitalist practices, draws close connections between collective identities, rights to resources, and social obligations throughout Mexican society. Ferry's ambitious, groundbreaking study opens up new ways of understanding modern Mexican history, the idea of property, value, and exchange in capitalist society, and current debates in Mexico over the ownership of resources, land, and historical artifacts. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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...
