Devil and Commodity Fetishism in South America

Name: Devil and Commodity Fetishism in South America
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ISBN: 9780807841068

ISBN-10: 0807841064

ISBN-13: 9780807841068

Edition: 1980 (Reprint)

Authors: Michael T. Taussig

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Michael Taussig explores the social significance of the devil in the folklore of contemporary plantation workers and miners in South America. Grounding his analysis in Marxist theory, Taussig finds that the fetishization of evil, in the image of the devil, is an image which mediates the conflict between precapitalist and capitalist modes of objectifying the human condition.

Book details

List price: $23.95
Copyright year: 1980
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 1/24/1983
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 277
Size: 5.83" wide x 8.94" long x 0.78" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

Preface	p. xi
Fetishism: the Master Trope	p. 1
Fetishism and Dialectical Deconstruction	p. 3
The Devil and Commodity Fetishism	p. 13
The Plantations of the Cauca Valley, Colombia	p. 39
Slave Religion and the Rise of the Free Peasantry	p. 41
Owners and Fences	p. 70
The Devil and the Cosmogenesis of Capitalism	p. 93
Pollution, Contradiction, and Salvation	p. 112
The Baptism of Money and the Secret of Capital	p. 126
The Bolivian Tin Mines	p. 141
The Devil in the Mines	p. 143
The Worship of Nature	p. 155
The Problem of Evil	p. 169
The Iconography of Nature and Conquest	p. 182
The Transformation of Mining and Mining Mythology	p. 199
Peasant Rites of Production	p. 214
Mining Magic: the Mediation of Commodity Fetishism	p. 223
Conclusion	p. 229
Bibliography	p. 235
Index	p. 257
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