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

ISBN: 0231080514

ISBN13: 9780231080514

We Eat the Mines and the Mines Eat Us

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Book Overview

In this powerful anthropological study of a Bolivian tin mining town, Nash explores the influence of modern industrialization on the traditional culture of Quechua-and-Aymara-speaking Indians.

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The true people's history of the mines

The best part about this book is that it was written 20 years after June originally arrived in Bolivia to write a book on the miners. Now she has returned and reviews the history of those 20 years and shows where today's miners, family and culture stands. This book is not a comparision of the past with the present but rather a building upon a tremendous history and struggle.For the person not familiar with the mines and...

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