June Nash Papers on Bolivia
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Abstract
June Nash is a social and feminist anthropologist and Distinguished Professor Emerita at the City University of New York (CUNY) who conducted extensive field work throughout the United States and Latin America, especially in Bolivia, Mexico and Guatemala. This collection includes field notes, diaries, lectures, papers, interviews, and Nash's published writings focusing on communities of tin miners working in Bolivia in 1970. Written in Spanish and English, these materials cover both the experience of the miners and Nash herself, and include accounts of daily activites in the mine, past strikes, speeches to workers assemblies, and complaints about working conditions in the mine.
Historical/Biographical Note
June Nash is a social and feminist anthropologist and Distinguished Professor Emerita at the City University of New York (CUNY) who has written and conducted extensive field work throughout the United States and Latin America, especially in Bolivia, Mexico and Guatemala. She has also been a part of feminist and working class social movements such as the Mexican Zapatista Army of National Liberation. Her 1979 book We Eat the Mines and the Mines Eat Us details working conditions of Bolivian tin mines in the mid twentieth century. Nash's ethnography focuses on working-class mining community to better understand the connection between Bolivia's proletariat and indigenous classes, the basis for the labor solidarity movement in Bolivia, and the radicalism that was emerging in the country at the time.
Arrangement
The collection was preliminarily arranged by a researcher by grouping like items together. There is an index of these items available in the first folder in the box.
Scope and Content Note
This collection includes field notes, diaries, lectures, papers, interviews, and published writings focusing on the community of tin miners working in Bolivia in 1970. Written in Spanish and English, these materials cover both the experience of the miners and Nash herself, and include accounts of daily activites in the mine, past strikes, speeches to workers assemblies, and complaints about working conditions in the mines.
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Conditions Governing Access
Materials are open without restrictions.
Conditions Governing Use
Copyright (or related rights to publicity and privacy) for materials in this collection, created by June Nash, was not transferred to New York University. Permission to use materials must be secured from the copyright holder.
Preferred Citation
Identification of item, date; June Nash Papers on Bolivia; TAM 662; box number; folder number; Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, New York University.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Donated by Sinclair Thomson on behalf of June Nash in 2014. The accession number associated with this gift is 2014.175.
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Processing Information
Before accessioning, a researcher arranged, foldered and partially indexed this collection on the item level. Original order is unknown. At accessioning, a collection level record was created, but no further arrangement took place.
