In their documentary called " The Devil 's mine" , Kief Davidson and Richard Ladkani portrait the mining near the city of Potosí. By a perspective of Basilio Vargas, a fourteen-year-old Bolivian boy who work in one of the Cerro Rico 's mines, the directors show us the labor condition of work and life of people on that field.
Basilio Vargas is the firstborn in a family of a widow mother and two more siblings. Working in a small and improductive mine, he and his younger brother work for longs shifts journeys. Using coca leaves to cut the pain, hunger and sleep Vargas put his life in risk on a old mine and around by dynamite explosions. His mother, who works watching the mine to not be stolen, expect from her two sons the help necessary to survive …show more content…
Catholicism is the main faith professed but with the colonization consequences some new characteristic were added on the native 's faith. Believing that anyone will help them inside the mines, natives starts to pray to the Christian image of the Devil. They believe that under the ground and inside the mountains are the Devil 's territory, so they give offers to Tio, name given by them to the Devil, to protect them against the mining dangers. This faith in Tio is a result of the fear that Spaniards used to make natives work on the colonization.
Even with all this difficult Basilio Vargas dream with get out of this work inside the mines. Fearing die young by the labor degradation that affects miners, Basilio dreams become a professor. Because of this he and his mother save the bread money to buy all the necessities to him and his siblings go to …show more content…
Encomienda is the term used by the define the right of the landowner uses local indigenous population as labor. After some historical process the encomienda was phased out resulting in a land competition between Spaniards and Indians on a grants system. This article by Hanns Prem the behavior of the switching between these two system.
At a first moment the Spanish colonization offers the colony the maintain their system heads and just collect the taxes from them. However this system was changed by the Encomienda, giving to "Honors people" the right of rule the land in return of the Indian religion education. The landowners were supposed not to stay more than one night on the Indian towns or build a house there as the King 's contract. Even with the all restrictions some encomenderos started mining immediately but few enterprises resulted in profitable deals as the Libros de transiciones show us.
Failing with the last system the transition to another process of land control drove the landholding to dispute with the indians. Traditionally, indian lands were protected by the Spanish law, but with the flux of migration and land abandon Spaniards took their lands to rule on. All of theses facts contribute to understand the haciendas, system where the big lands are owned by few people, on the eighteenth and nineteenth
Basilio Vargas is the firstborn in a family of a widow mother and two more siblings. Working in a small and improductive mine, he and his younger brother work for longs shifts journeys. Using coca leaves to cut the pain, hunger and sleep Vargas put his life in risk on a old mine and around by dynamite explosions. His mother, who works watching the mine to not be stolen, expect from her two sons the help necessary to survive …show more content…
Catholicism is the main faith professed but with the colonization consequences some new characteristic were added on the native 's faith. Believing that anyone will help them inside the mines, natives starts to pray to the Christian image of the Devil. They believe that under the ground and inside the mountains are the Devil 's territory, so they give offers to Tio, name given by them to the Devil, to protect them against the mining dangers. This faith in Tio is a result of the fear that Spaniards used to make natives work on the colonization.
Even with all this difficult Basilio Vargas dream with get out of this work inside the mines. Fearing die young by the labor degradation that affects miners, Basilio dreams become a professor. Because of this he and his mother save the bread money to buy all the necessities to him and his siblings go to …show more content…
Encomienda is the term used by the define the right of the landowner uses local indigenous population as labor. After some historical process the encomienda was phased out resulting in a land competition between Spaniards and Indians on a grants system. This article by Hanns Prem the behavior of the switching between these two system.
At a first moment the Spanish colonization offers the colony the maintain their system heads and just collect the taxes from them. However this system was changed by the Encomienda, giving to "Honors people" the right of rule the land in return of the Indian religion education. The landowners were supposed not to stay more than one night on the Indian towns or build a house there as the King 's contract. Even with the all restrictions some encomenderos started mining immediately but few enterprises resulted in profitable deals as the Libros de transiciones show us.
Failing with the last system the transition to another process of land control drove the landholding to dispute with the indians. Traditionally, indian lands were protected by the Spanish law, but with the flux of migration and land abandon Spaniards took their lands to rule on. All of theses facts contribute to understand the haciendas, system where the big lands are owned by few people, on the eighteenth and nineteenth