Document Type

Article

Publication Title

Technology and Culture

Publisher

Johns Hopkins University Press

Publication Date

7-1980

Publisher location

Baltimore, MD

First Page

545

Last Page

546

Issue Number

3

Volume Number

21

Abstract/ Summary

This book is about the high human cost of producing tin and other minerals. June Nash vividly describes the arduous physical labor and life of Bolivian miners in the physically inhospitable Andean mountains. More than an anthropological account of indigenous miners in far-off Bolivia, the book is a serious rendering of the contemporary social, economic, and political reality at the industrial world periphery. It is a unique blend of disciplines, paradigms, and philosophies which moves one back and forth in time and space and thought. Nash is able to tie this all together by permitting the miners to speak for themselves at great length throughout the book. This not only puts flesh on the bare bones of statistics and theory, but provides the reader with a people-to-people dialogue of the failures of foreign imperialism, national corporatism, and technology.

Citation/Publisher Attribution

Burk, M. (1980). We eat the mines and the mines eat us: dependency and exploitation in Bolivian tin mines [book review]. Technology and Culture, July, 21(3), 545-546.

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© Copyright 1980 by Johns Hopkins University Press

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