June C. Nash (May 30, 1927
– December 9, 2019) was a
social
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Etymology
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and
feminist
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anthropologist and Distinguished Professor Emerita at the
City University of New York
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(CUNY). She conducted extensive field work throughout the
United States
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and
Latin America
Latin America or
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* ht, Amerik Latin, link=no
* pt, América Latina, link=no, name=a, sometimes referred to as LatAm is a large cultural region in the Americas where Romance languages — languages derived ...
, most notably in
Bolivia
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,
Mexico
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and
Guatemala
Guatemala ( ; ), officially the Republic of Guatemala ( es, República de Guatemala, links=no), is a country in Central America. It is bordered to the north and west by Mexico; to the northeast by Belize and the Caribbean; to the east by Hon ...
. She was also a part of
feminist
Feminism is a range of socio-political movements and ideologies that aim to define and establish the political, economic, personal, and social equality of the sexes. Feminism incorporates the position that society prioritizes the male po ...
and
working class
The working class (or labouring class) comprises those engaged in manual-labour occupations or industrial work, who are remunerated via waged or salaried contracts. Working-class occupations (see also " Designation of workers by collar colou ...
social movement
A social movement is a loosely organized effort by a large group of people to achieve a particular goal, typically a social or political one. This may be to carry out a social change, or to resist or undo one. It is a type of group action and ma ...
s such as that of the
Zapatistas
Zapatista(s) may refer to:
* Liberation Army of the South, formed 1910s, a Mexican insurgent group involved in the Mexican Revolution
* Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN), formed 1983, a Mexican indigenous armed revolutionary group based ...
in Mexico.
Early life and education
June Caprice Bousley was born in
Salem, Massachusetts
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in 1927 to Joseph and Josephine (Salloway) Bousley.
She graduated with a
Bachelor's degree
A bachelor's degree (from Middle Latin ''baccalaureus'') or baccalaureate (from Modern Latin ''baccalaureatus'') is an undergraduate academic degree awarded by colleges and universities upon completion of a course of study lasting three to si ...
in
economics
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Economics focuses on the behaviour and interactions of economic agents and how economies work. Microeconomics anal ...
from
Barnard College
Barnard College of Columbia University is a private women's liberal arts college in the borough of Manhattan in New York City. It was founded in 1889 by a group of women led by young student activist Annie Nathan Meyer, who petitioned Columbia ...
in
New York City
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.
After graduation, she worked for a year in
Washington D.C.
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as a
statistician
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It is common to combine statistical knowledge with expertise in other subjects, and statisticians may w ...
before deciding to travel to Mexico. She first spent some time in
Acapulco
Acapulco de Juárez (), commonly called Acapulco ( , also , nah, Acapolco), is a city and major seaport in the state of Guerrero on the Pacific Coast of Mexico, south of Mexico City. Acapulco is located on a deep, semicircular bay and has ...
, but decided to travel to the mountains of
Chiapas
Chiapas (; Tzotzil and Tzeltal: ''Chyapas'' ), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Chiapas ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Chiapas), is one of the states that make up the 32 federal entities of Mexico. It comprises 124 municipalities ...
, Mexico where she worked alongside the
American Friends Service Committee
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on various projects in
Maya
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Civilizations
* Maya peoples, of southern Mexico and northern Central America
** Maya civilization, the historical civilization of the Maya peoples
** Maya language, the languages of the Maya peoples
* Maya (Ethiopia), a popul ...
communities.
With a new interest in
Maya peoples
The Maya peoples () are an ethnolinguistic group of Indigenous peoples of the Americas, indigenous peoples of Mesoamerica. The ancient Maya civilization was formed by members of this group, and today's Maya are generally descended from people ...
, Nash returned to the United States to pursue graduate studies, ultimately receiving both her
M.A.
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and
Ph.D.
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from the Department of Anthropology at the
University of Chicago
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in 1960. Her dissertation "Social relations in
Amatenango del Valle
Amatenango del Valle is a town and one of the 122 municipalities of Chiapas, in southern Mexico. It covers an area of .
As of 2010, the municipality had a total population of 8,728, up from 6,559 as of 2005.
As of 2010, the town of Amatenang ...
: an Activity Analysis" detailed the social conditions of this town in
Chiapas
Chiapas (; Tzotzil and Tzeltal: ''Chyapas'' ), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Chiapas ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Chiapas), is one of the states that make up the 32 federal entities of Mexico. It comprises 124 municipalities ...
, Mexico.
Career
Nash had a prolific career as an anthropologist spanning 50 years of field work and scholarship. She taught at
Yale University
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and
New York University
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In 1832, th ...
before coming to CUNY in 1990.
Her work was published in a wide variety of journals including the ''Southwestern Journal of Anthropology'', ''
Human Organization
''Human Organization'' is the peer-reviewed research journal of the Society for Applied Anthropology. Published quarterly since 1941, it is the second-longest continuously published journal in cultural anthropology in the United States. Its prima ...
'', the ''Journal of Black Studies'', the ''Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences'', ''American Ethnologist'', ''International Labor and Working Class History'', the ''Anthropology of Work Review'', and the ''Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies''.
She also contributed to the creation of two
ethnographic film
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s, ''I Spent My Life in the Mines,'' based on her work in Bolivia, and ''Community and Industrial Cycle,'' based on her work with
General Electric
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employees in
Pittsfield, Massachusetts
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.
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She received a number of awards, including the Conrad Arensburg Award for Ethnological Studies (1992), the ]American Anthropological Association
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's Distinguished Service Award (1995) and the Kalman Silvert Award of the Latin American Studies Association
The Latin American Studies Association (LASA) is the largest association for scholars of Latin American studies. Founded in 1966, it has over 12,000 members, 45 percent of whom reside outside the United States (36 percent in Latin America and the C ...
(2004).[
The Roseberry-Nash Award for a graduate student paper was created in 2006 in honor of the contributions June Nash and William Roseberry have made to Latin American anthropology.] The June Nash Travel Award was also created to honor Nash and is awarded by the Society for the Anthropology of Work to help fund a graduate student's participation in the annual AAA
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Arts, entertainment, and me ...
meetings.
Field work
Kay Warren has described Nash's work and creativity as "inherently oppositional." Nash's political activism
Activism (or Advocacy) consists of efforts to promote, impede, direct or intervene in social, political, economic or environmental reform with the desire to make changes in society toward a perceived greater good. Forms of activism range fro ...
could be found throughout her various field work projects. The overlap of ethnography
Ethnography (from Greek ''ethnos'' "folk, people, nation" and ''grapho'' "I write") is a branch of anthropology and the systematic study of individual cultures. Ethnography explores cultural phenomena from the point of view of the subject ...
with this activism allows her work to function as social criticism
Social criticism is a form of academic or journalistic criticism focusing on social issues in contemporary society, in particular with respect to perceived injustices and power relations in general.
Social criticism of the Enlightenment
The or ...
. Her methodology for doing ethnography was to create a dialogue with the people with whom she lives. In an interview with Smith College
Smith College is a private liberal arts women's college in Northampton, Massachusetts. It was chartered in 1871 by Sophia Smith and opened in 1875. It is the largest member of the historic Seven Sisters colleges, a group of elite women's coll ...
she shared her views of anthropology and field work: "I think anthropology is very comprehensive. It takes into account all aspects of life," she explains. "It's a method of living with people."
Nash began her field work in Chiapas and continued to return there throughout her career. She continued to make field visits to Mexico and Guatemala
Guatemala ( ; ), officially the Republic of Guatemala ( es, República de Guatemala, links=no), is a country in Central America. It is bordered to the north and west by Mexico; to the northeast by Belize and the Caribbean; to the east by Hon ...
, focusing her research on ecology and alternative development models.
Tin mining in Bolivia
Nash traveled to Bolivia
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where she applied Marxist theory
Marxist philosophy or Marxist theory are works in philosophy that are strongly influenced by Karl Marx's materialist approach to theory, or works written by Marxists. Marxist philosophy may be broadly divided into Western Marxism, which drew fro ...
to analyze structural violence
Structural violence is a form of violence wherein some social structure or social institution may harm people by preventing them from meeting their basic needs.
The term was coined by Norwegian sociologist Johan Galtung, who introduced it in hi ...
in the lives of tin miners. In the preface to ''We Eat the Mines and the Mines Eat Us'' (1979) she describes her work as follows:
:"This book recounts the story of the people in their struggle to maintain their way of life. Given this background of massacres, resistance, and protest, the courage they show in this current situation is remarkable. It should be an inspiration for those who maintain that progress can be made only when the rank and file of workers are the architects of the institutions in which they work and lie, just as it is a refutation of those who reject the primary role of workers in bringing about such a future" (xxi)
The book exemplifies Nash's ability to provide personal, ethnographic accounts while contextualizing the individual experience in the social and economic conditions of the place. Her methodology of demonstrating local experiences of political processes via ethnography was ground-breaking for the time and foreshadowed the push for more interactive and participatory ethnography work being done today.
In 1992, her biography of Juan Rojas and his family, first published in 1976 in Spanish as ''He Agotado Mi Vida en las Minas,'' was published in English as ''I Spent My Life in the Mines.''. Nash formed a strong bond with Rojas and his family throughout her field work, allowing her to learn about the life of a tin miner. The 1992 English version of the biography includes updated chapters on Roja's wife and grown children. Nash describes her relationship with Rojas as well as her position as an anthropologist speaking for others in the introduction to the book: "In many ways I feel that I was selected by Juan to be the medium through which he could narrate his life story" (p. 7) Rojas and Nash, along with the help of Eduardo Ibanez, shared the stories of this book via an ethnographic film
An ethnographic film is a non-fiction film, often similar to a documentary film, historically shot by Western filmmakers and dealing with non-Western people, and sometimes associated with anthropology. Definitions of the term are not definitive. ...
documentary of the same name (''I Spent My Life in the Mines'') in 1977.[
]
Capitalism and globalization
From her use of Marxist theory
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to her critique of globalization
Globalization, or globalisation (Commonwealth English; see spelling differences), is the process of interaction and integration among people, companies, and governments worldwide. The term ''globalization'' first appeared in the early 20t ...
, Nash's scholarship consistently contributed to the critique of global capitalism
Capitalism is an economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production and their operation for profit. Central characteristics of capitalism include capital accumulation, competitive markets, price system, private ...
. She decided to return to the United States and study corporations there after tin miners in Bolivia asked her about the conditions of working for corporations in the U.S. This motivation resulted in her monograph about General Electric
General Electric Company (GE) is an American multinational conglomerate founded in 1892, and incorporated in New York state and headquartered in Boston. The company operated in sectors including healthcare, aviation, power, renewable ene ...
workers at a plant in Pittsfield, Massachusetts
Pittsfield is the largest city and the county seat of Berkshire County, Massachusetts, United States. It is the principal city of the Pittsfield, Massachusetts Metropolitan Statistical Area which encompasses all of Berkshire County. Pittsfield� ...
(1989).
Following that, she returned to Chiapas and published ''Crafts in the World Market: the Impact of Global Exchange on Middle American Artisans'' detailing the ways in which traditional artisan
An artisan (from french: artisan, it, artigiano) is a skilled craft worker who makes or creates material objects partly or entirely by hand. These objects may be functional or strictly decorative, for example furniture, decorative art ...
s were involved in the global market. Nash's most recent publications continue to analyze the ways in which globalization articulates itself at the local level. For example, her article entitled "Consuming Interests: Water, Rum, and Coca-Cola from Ritual Propitiation to Corporate Expropriation in Highland Chiapas" is a comparative study of Guatemala
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and Chiapas and the way the alcoholic beverage
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rum
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and Coke has been promoted and accepted for traditional and ritual
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uses.
Chiapas and the Zapatistas
Nash published extensively on various topics in Maya communities in Chiapas
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, ranging from discussions of violence
Violence is the use of physical force so as to injure, abuse, damage, or destroy. Other definitions are also used, such as the World Health Organization's definition of violence as "the intentional use of physical force or power, threatened ...
, political anthropology
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History of political anthropology Origins
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and artisan
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practices. Since the 1994 Zapatista rebellion, Nash provided commentary on the social movement from her unique perspective as an anthropologist who has worked in the Chiapas area since the 1950s. She described the political organizing of the movement as “radical democratic mobilization” under a system that excludes indigenous peoples
Indigenous peoples are culturally distinct ethnic groups whose members are directly descended from the earliest known inhabitants of a particular geographic region and, to some extent, maintain the language and culture of those original people ...
. Nash also emphasized that Zapatistas
Zapatista(s) may refer to:
* Liberation Army of the South, formed 1910s, a Mexican insurgent group involved in the Mexican Revolution
* Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN), formed 1983, a Mexican indigenous armed revolutionary group based ...
are responding to a global trend to militarize conflicts that involve indigenous peoples.
According to Nash, the Zapatistas are unique because women make up 30% of the movement's participants. She attributed the elevated status of women in the state of Chiapas to the formation of a women-led pottery collective in the 1970s. Though the collective was not active from the 1970s to the present, it was reactivated under the Zapatistas and has been a continuing source of strength for women in the area.
In her book ''Mayan Visions'', she discusses the Maya of Chiapas from a historic perspective, and then brings the reader to the present to better understand how and why the Zapatista movement came to be under the forces of global capitalism and globalization.
Gender in Latin America
Nash played an important role in establishing gender
Gender is the range of characteristics pertaining to femininity and masculinity and differentiating between them. Depending on the context, this may include sex-based social structures (i.e. gender roles) and gender identity. Most culture ...
as an area of study in Latin America. Her edited volumes ''Sex and Class in Latin America'' (1976) with Helen Safa and ''Women, Men and the International Division of Labor'' with Maria P. Fernandez-Kelly both anticipated future scholarship in which sex and gender were analyzed as unique areas of inquiry. Nash boldly states in her introduction to the ''Sex and Class in Latin America'' volume,
:"They (women) mediate between men in the nerve centers of complex societies, seen but rarely heard, stimulating production over which they have no control, becoming consumers of products they inspire but do not produce, and finally becoming “consumed”- petted, admired and seduced- by the men who produce them."(p.9)
Her feminist
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analysis was closely tied to her background in class and (re)production and was among the first critical analysis of its time of women in Latin America.
Since then, particularly in her work with the Zapatistas, Nash was criticized by some second-wave feminists for essentializing gender roles in her discussion of Latin American social movements. She wrote about the revitalization of traditional gender roles in the Zapatista movement, and responded to criticism by arguing that self-essentializing is a valuable tool for women participating in Latin American social movements. Warren shares the following excerpt from ''Mayan Visions'' to demonstrate Nash's argument:
: "Just as the referential system of religion in the politics of indigenous peoples raises hackles with the sophisticated outside observer, so too does the self-referential language of motherhood and identification with the earth often used by women in these movements. In the postmodern, deconstructive mode now fashionable in anthropology, the very category of women is decried as essentialist.. . . We must go beyond deconstruction of the rhetoric to discover the incentives generating a common collective image among indigenous movements."
Personal life
In 1951, June C. Bousley married Manning Nash (1924-2001), a fellow graduate student in anthropology at the University of Chicago
The University of Chicago (UChicago, Chicago, U of C, or UChi) is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois. Its main campus is located in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood. The University of Chicago is consistently ranked among the b ...
. After completing her master's degree in 1953, she joined him in Guatemala for fieldwork. In 1960 and 1961, she conducted fieldwork in Burma with her husband, collaborating on research relating to marriage, family, and population growth. Later, in 1972, she married New York University
New York University (NYU) is a private research university in New York City. Chartered in 1831 by the New York State Legislature, NYU was founded by a group of New Yorkers led by then- Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin.
In 1832, th ...
sociology professor Herbert Menzel (1921-1987), and in 1997 she married again to Frank Reynolds
Frank James Reynolds (November 29, 1923 – July 20, 1983) was an American television journalist for CBS and ABC News.
Reynolds was a New York–based anchor of the ''ABC Evening News'' from 1968 to 1970 and later was the Washington, D. ...
, professor of history of religions and Buddhist studies at the University of Chicago Divinity School
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. She had two children, Eric and Laura, from her first marriage.
Nash died on December 9, 2019, at the age of 92.
Selected works
* 2007 "Consuming Interests: Water, Rum, and Coca-Cola from Ritual Propitiation to Corporate Expropriation in Highland Chiapas" in ''Cultural Anthropology'', Vol. 22, no. 4.
* 2003 "The Integration of Indigenous People in Civil Society" in ''Social Analysis'', Vol. 47, no. 1.
* 2003 "The War of the Peace in Chiapas: Indigenous Women's Struggle for Peace and Justice," pp. 285–312 in ''What Justice? Whose Justice? Fighting for Fairness in Latin America'', Susan Eva Eckstein and Timothy P. Wickham-Crowley, eds. Berkeley: University of California Press.
* 2003 "Mesoamerican Indigenous Women and Religion" in ''Latino(a) Research Review'', Vol. 5, no. 2–3.
* 2003 "The Domestication of Military Violence" in the Society for Feminist Anthropologists' ''Anthropology'' Newsletter.
* 2003 "Mexico Turns South for its Future," pp. 6–10 in ''Society for the Anthropology of North America'', Vol. 6, no. 1 (June).
* 2003 "Indigenous Development Alternatives," pp. 57–98 in ''Urban Anthropology and Studies of Cultural Systems'', Vol. 32, no. 1.
* 2002 "Postscript: Gender in Place and Culture," in ''Gender's Place: Feminist Anthropologies of Latin America'', Rosario Montoya, Lessie Jo Frazier, and Janise Hurtig, eds. New York and London: Routledge Press.
* 2002 "Globalization and the Cultivation of Peripheral Vision," pp. 5–20 in ''Anthropology Today'', Vol. 17, no. 4 (August).
* 2001 "Ethnicity, Race, and Gender: Intersection in the Americas, Opportunities for Dialogue and Advancement within the International Human Rights Framework" in ''Race, Gender, Ethnicity and Human Rights in the Americas: A New Paradigm for Activists'', Celina Romany, ed.
* 2001. ''Mayan Visions: The Quest for Autonomy in an Age of Globalization''. New York and London: Routledge Press.
* 2000 "Gender, Ethnicity, and Migration: Teaching Diversity" in ''Cultural Diversity in the United States'', Ida Susser, ed. London and New York: Blackwell Publications.
* 2000 "Gendered Deities and the Survival of Culture," pp. 297–316 in ''Gender/Bodies, Religion'', Sylvia Marcos, ed. Cuernavaca, Mexico: Aler Books.
* 1997 "The Fiesta of the Word: The Zapatista Uprising and Radical Democracy in Mexico" p. 261-274 in ''American Anthropology''. Vol.99(2).
* 1993 ''Crafts in the World Market: The Impact of Global Exchange on Middle American Artisans''. Albany: State University of New York Press.
* 1992 ''I Spent My Life in the Mines: The Story of Juan Rojas, Bolivian Tin Miner''. New York: Columbia University Press.
* 1989 ''From Tank Town to High Tech: The Clash of Community and Industrial Cycles''. Albany : State University of New York Press.
* 198
"Ethnographic Aspects of the World Capitalist System"
p. 393-423 in ''Annual Review of Anthropology'', Vol.10(1).
* 1979 ''We Eat the Mines and the Mines Eat Us: Dependency and Exploitation in Bolivian Tin Mines''. New York: Columbia University Press.
* 1970 ''In the Eyes of the Ancestors: Belief and Behavior in a Mayan Community''. New Haven: Yale University Press.
References
Further reading
Nash, June.
:2001 ''Mayan Visions: The Quest for Autonomy in an Age of Globalization''. New York and London: Routledge Press.
:1992 ''I Spent My Life in the Mines: the Story of Juan Rojas, Bolivian Tin Miner''. New York: Columbia University Press.
:1979 ''We Eat the Mines and the Mines Eat Us: Dependency and Exploitation in Bolivian Tin Mines''. New York: Columbia University Press.
* Nash, June and Helen Safa, eds. 1976. ''Sex and Class in Latin America''. New York: Praeger Publishers.
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