Elizabeth Emma Ferry explores how members of Guanajuato's Santa Fe
Cooperative, Mexico's only remaining cooperatively owned silver
mine, give meaning to their labor in an era of rampant
globalization and neoliberalism. Ferry analyzes the cooperative's
practices and the importance of "patrimonio" (patrimony) in their
understanding of work, kinship, and morality. More specifically,
she argues that patrimonio, a belief that certain resources are
inalienable possessions of a local collective passed down to
subsequent generations, shapes and sustains the cooperative's sense
of identity.
In addition to descriptions of the miners' lives and views,
Ferry examines patrimonio's influence on other aspects of Mexican
life. Patrimonio, which both challenges and coexists with
contemporary capitalist practices, draws close connections between
collective identities, rights to resources, and social obligations
throughout Mexican society. Ferry's ambitious, groundbreaking study
opens up new ways of understanding modern Mexican history, the idea
of property, value, and exchange in capitalist society, and current
debates in Mexico over the ownership of resources, land, and
historical artifacts.
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