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... and chew coca leaf together, smoke, and share a drink. Miners are also the “devils” who come out at Carnival to dance in the streets by the thousands, above all in the mining city of Oruro. The tío is an adaptation to mining culture of old Andean agricultural beliefs about the fertile forces...

... resources (rendered toward the telos of industrialization) get made into a subjective category that cojoins inhuman materials and the status of Black life into the inhumanity of carceral conditions. Historically focused on the convict lease and mining in Alabama, this chapter demonstrates how Black spatial...

... The rich silver mines of Potosí were like veins through which flowed, as one contemporary put it, “the blood of the political body” of the Spanish empire. Born in Asunción, Paraguay, Pedro Vicente Cañete y Domínguez (1749/50–1816) worked his way up as an “enlightened” functionary of the colonial...