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Silver "Thieves," Tin Barons, and Conquistadors

Small-Scale Mineral Production in Southern Bolivia

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

AvMary Van Buren,Mary Van Buren,Mary van Buren

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The Spanish conquest of Peru was motivated by the quest for precious metals, a search that resulted in the discovery of massive silver deposits in what is now southern Bolivia. The enormous flow of specie into the world economy is usually attributed to the Spanish imposition of a forced labor system on the Indigenous population as well as the introduction of European technology. This narrative omits the role played by thousands of independent miners, often working illegally, who at different points in history generated up to 30 percent of the silver produced in the region. In this work, Mary Van Buren examines the long-term history of these workers, the technology they used, and their relationship to successive large-scale mining.The methods of historian Bertell Ollman, particularly a dialectical approach and “doing history backwards,” are used to examine small-scale mineral production in Porco, Bolivia. The research is based on nine seasons of archaeological fieldwork and historical research, with a particular focus on labor and technology. Van Buren argues that artisanal mineral production must be understood in relation to large-scale mining rather than as a traditional practice and that the Bolivian case is a culturally specific instantiation of a broader economic phenomenon that began under colonial regimes.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2024-07-02
Mått152 x 229 x 25 mm
Vikt454 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieArchaeology of Indigenous-Colonial Interactions in the Americas
Antal sidor264
FörlagUniversity of Arizona Press
ISBN9780816553334

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Arkeologi inom Historia och arkeologi
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Etnicitet inom Samhälle och politik

Introduction: Small-scale Metal Production and Long-term History in Porco, BoliviaChapter 1: Small-Scale Metal Production at the Turn of the 21st CenturyChapter 2: Small-scale Metal Production in the Age of Industrialization (1825-1964)Chapter 3: Silver Extraction under Colonial Rule (1573-1825)Chapter 4. Spanish Conquistadors and Indigenous Control of Mineral Production, 1538-1572Chapter 5. Inka Silver Mining and its Antecedents in the Southern AndesChapter 6. A Return to the Present: Kajcheo in Global Perspective Conclusion References Cited

“In this book, Van Buren uses archaeological and historical research to trace the long history of mining in Bolivia, an industry that for centuries has occupied a critical space in reinforcing colonial practices and structural inequalities in Andean nations. Her approach moves from easy equations of past and present institutions, readings that reinforce a colonizer and colonized dichotomy, or narratives predicated on the erasure of Indigenous practices. Instead, Van Buren tells a complex and intertwined story of mining at different scales, highlighting that the persistence of Indigenous technologies and values can be traced through the materiality of the institutions that sought to eradicate them.”—Carla HernÁndez Garavito, University of California, Santa Cruz

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