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

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Book Section
Indigenous Studies
Creators & Publishers
Author
Nash, June
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Metadata
ISBN
0-231-04710-x
Collection
Regular item
Year
1979
Keywords
Bolivia
exploitation
indigenous
mines
industrialization
Tin
Description

In this anthropological study of a Bolivian tin mining town, June Nash explores the influence of modern industrialization on the traditional culture of Quecha- and Aymara-speaking Indians. Illustatrated and drawing on interviews and the author's own participation in the life of the community over and eighteen month period.