Not Ours Alone
Patrimony, Value, and Collectivity in Contemporary Mexico
Published on 5. October 2005
Book
Paperback/Softback
296 pages
978-0-231-13239-8 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
21 photos, 1 map
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Weight
403 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-231-13239-8 (9780231132398)
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Content
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