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Professor Wiltberger
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Death and community make sense to them (miners) b/c of mines Dependable on tools Bolivia o 1557: major thing w/minors o 1985: mining became to clash o 1988: increase in gold collection o 2014: Nationalization law gets kicked in by (Morales?) Poor labor conditions—major child labor June Nash-- anthropologists o Witness Miners lifestyle o Went into mining despite many warnings o Describes miners' job and lifestyle in detail Risks and Danger—working conditions o Working w/dynamite o No protective gear b/c gets in the way o Temp. Change o Losing fluids --> draining themselves --> loses work for a long time o Diseases “We eat the mines and mines eat us” o Miners see mines as a living organism ▪ Call it names ▪ More like a mouth ▪ Reflects how the miners feel and think Workers relationship o Lots of hostility Coping o Chew on cocoa leaves ▪ Contain w/coffee, marijuana (develop addiction and hallucinating) ▪ Lowers anxiety ▪ Having community and belonging Cocoa leaves o Very important o Make meaning of sacrifices o Global dependency o All resources we depend on has been extraction from global Extraction o Extracting labor – woman force/ human flesh o Extracting meaning of death o Extracting minerals Thoughts (final) o Miners risking lives for our resources o Set up a global extraction

o Seen expendable -> can be replaced if someone dies VIDEO • • • • • •

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Mining contamination Herd (animals) get diarrhea and bleeds b/c of water Water has low ph levels Extract tin metal Workers carry on Many people died – enough to build a bridge from where they are to Spain o Like the Chinese great wall o Amount of tin found can build bridge as well World order: providers of raw material...