June Nash Bolivian Tin Mines Chapter Summary

In the book, "We eat the mines and the mines eat us: reliance and abuse in Bolivian tin mines" by June Nash, Nash constitutes a strong commitment both to the ethnography of mining groups and to the hypothesis of ideology and class-awareness. Nash's advanced hypothetical point of view gives the binding together string, which gives full importance to the exchange of ethnographic themes, for example, family, sex roles, group organization and world perspectives, which are all managed in rich and fascinating subtle element. This achievement alone separates Nash's book from most customary ethnographies. What's more, Nash gives us an intensive prologue to the history and political economy of mining in Bolivia, consequently relating the ethnographic

Memorable occasions are examined as far as their effect on the individual awareness of both male and female miners. Their common historical encounters additionally add to shape the collective consciousness of the class. Be that as it may, Nash evades oversimplified elucidations by talking about various ideological practices (religion, ethnicity, machismo) and types of social relations (competition, paternalism, patron client arrangements), which frequently muddle or obstruct the improvement of a collective identity with a class. This point is especially all around contended for

Her fundamental point is that the continuity with Indian culture facilitates the miners' change to present day society. The miners fathom the obvious inconsistencies in their system of convictions neither by uncritically tolerating the binding together ideologies offered to them by the church, government officials and union leaders, nor by falling into a simple syncretism, however by compartmentalizing their convictions in time and