Indigenous life projects and extractivism : ethnographies from South America
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2019Author
Rivera Andía, Juan Javier
Vindal Ødegaard, Cecilie
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Rivera Andía, Juan Javier
Vindal Ødegaard, Cecilie
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Abstract
Extractivism is a good way to summarise the last five hundred years in
South America. When Indigenous people discovered Spanish explorers on
their coasts in the late fifteenth century, the strangers had arrived in search
of precious metals and spices. Mercantilist policies at the time sought to
increase wealth and power through trade and the accumulation of gold
and silver. Proselytism accompanied the extraction of natural resources
and, as Europeans moved into the continent, they employed religion and
force to coerce Indigenous labour. Native people became the workers who
first panned for gold in the Caribbean and then mined silver in northern
New Spain (Mexico) and at Potosí, a high plateau in what is today Bolivia.
Native labour made extractivism possible throughout the Colonial Period
and, with millions of African slaves, facilitated Europeans’ appropriation of
raw materials. The extraction of resources, forced labour, and European
colonisation created the South America we know today.
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