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9780231132398

Not Ours Alone : Patrimony, Value, and Collectivity in Contemporary Mexico

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    9780231132398

  • ISBN10:

    0231132395

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2005-10-15
  • Publisher: Columbia Univ Pr

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Summary

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.

Author Biography

Elizabeth Emma Ferry is assistant professor of anthropology at Brandeis University

Table of Contents

Foreword ix
June Nash
Acknowledgments xvii
Introduction: Inalienability, Value, and Collectivity
1(21)
The Santa Fe Cooperative in Guanajuato, Mexico
22(33)
Labor, History, and Historical Consciousness
55(20)
Recent Challenges and Responses
75(25)
Realms of Patrimony: Mine and House
100(39)
Patrimony, Power, and Ideology
139(33)
Veins of Value, Rocks of Renown: An Anthropology of Mined Substances
172(27)
Mexican Languages of Patrimony: Land, Subsoil, ``Culture''
199(18)
Conclusion: Not Whose Alone?
217(7)
Appendix I Historical Silver Prices from 1975 to 2002 224(1)
Appendix II Aspects of Mineral Production in the Santa Fe Cooperative 225(10)
Notes 235(18)
Works Cited 253(16)
Index 269

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