Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Foreword ix
4. Acknowledgments xvii
5. Chapter 1. Introduction: Inalienability,Value, and Collectivity 1
6. Chapter 2. The Santa Fe Cooperative in Guanajuato, Mexico 22
7. chapter 3 Labor, History, and Historical Consciousness 55
8. Chapter 4. Recent Challenges and Responses 75
9. Chapter 5. Realms of Patrimony: Mine and House 100
10. Chapter 6. Patrimony, Power, and Ideology 139
11. Chapter 7. Veins of Value, Rocks of Renown:An Anthropology of Mined Substances 172
12. Chapter 8. Mexican Languages of Patrimony: Land, Subsoil,“Culture” 199
13. Chapter 9. Conclusion: Not Whose Alone? 217
14. Appendix 1. Historical Silver Prices from 1975 to 2002 224
15. Appendix 2. Aspects of Mineral Production in the Santa Fe Cooperative 225
16. Notes 235
17. Works Cited 253
18. Index 269