Capitalism and development

1
Capitalism and development

• 02.03.2006

2
Presentations

• Nash, J. 1979. We Eat the Mines and the Mines Eat
  Us Dependency and Exploitation in Bolivian Tin
  Mines.
• Taussig, M. 1980. The Devil and Commodity
  Fetishism in South America. Chapel Hill.

3
June Nash

• I spent my life in the mines the story of Juan
  Rojas, Bolivian tin miner (1992)
• In the eyes of the ancestors belief and behavior
  in a Maya community (1970)
• Mayan visions the quest for autonomy in an age
  of globalization (2001)

4
Michael Taussig

• Shamanism, colonialism, and the wild man a study
  in terror and healing (1987)
• The nervous system (1992)
• Mimesis and alterity a particular history of the
  senses (1993)
• The magic of the state (1997)
• Defacement public secrecy and the labor of the
  negative (1999)
• My Cocaine Museum (2004)

5
Capitalism and development in SA

• gt Two interlinked general social trends
• 1) Peasantification of indigenous groups
  (Amazonia)
• Governmental assimilation and development
  projects
• Indian support groups
• eg. FUNAI
• Indians as an obsolete category

6
Capitalism and development in SA

• 2) Proletarianization of peasantry (Andes)
• Privatization of lands
• concentration of land to the hands of large
  landholder
• Urbanization
• Industrialization
• Mining as major industrial sector

7
Capitalism and development

• Clash of systems of production
• Use value vs exchange value
• C gt C
• C gt M gt C
• M gt C gt M (M gt M)
• gt Commodification
• gt Commodity fetishism
• gt Inequality, alienation
• gt Clash of worldviews