Trabalho e Imaginário em Potosí-Bolívia

Abstract

This research highlights the reality of working miners of Potosí inBolivia. It is a reality marked by the hardness of living conditions, butalso by a rich imagination.To understand this theoreptical complexity, weseek as a reference a junction between two concepts of Simone Weil andother Yves Schwartz. The concept of rooting and the concept of selfbody.It is an exploratory research because the distance and difficulties ofthe field , do not allowed us to stay longer in it. It has as a conclusion that,unlike the experience of Weil in the factory, which is resignation, the livesof miners in the toughest conditions, is resistance. They resist sustenaied by the the culture, values and all imagery. Besides the need to survive, the cultural dynamic is also an important factor in everyday life of the mine. The most interesting of the cultural dynamic that we can identify , is that it brings the spiritual dimension of life of the miners. When the material forces are exhausted, is from the spirit that they take energy to keep working.