Not ours alone :: patrimony, value, and collectivity in contemporary Mexico /

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 communi...

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Main Author: Ferry, Elizabeth Emma
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, ©2005.
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Online Access:DE-862
DE-863
Summary: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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xix, 273 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-267) and index.
ISBN:0231507143
9780231507141

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