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UNINA9910973199103321 |
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Autore |
Taussig Michael T |
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Titolo |
The devil and commodity fetishism in South America / / Michael T. Taussig |
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Chapel Hill [N.C.], : University of North Carolina Press, c2010 |
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ISBN |
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979-88-908861-6-3 |
979-88-9313-455-1 |
1-4696-0423-X |
0-8078-9841-4 |
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Edizione |
[30th anniversary ed. /] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (315 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Economic development - Social aspects |
Plantations - Colombia - Cauca River Valley |
Tin mines and mining - Bolivia |
Superstition |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-287) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Preface to the Thirtieth Anniversary Edition; Preface; PART I: Fetishism: The Master Trope; 1 Fetishism and Dialectical Deconstruction; 2 The Devil and Commodity Fetishism; PART II: The Plantations of the Cauca Valley, Colombia; 3 Slave Religion and the Rise of the Free Peasantry; 4 Owners and Fences; 5 The Devil and the Cosmogenesis of Capitalism; 6 Pollution, Contradiction, and Salvation; 7 The Baptism of Money and the Secret of Capital; PART III: The Bolivian Tin Mines; 8 The Devil in the Mines; 9 The Worship of Nature; 10 The Problem of Evil |
11 The Iconography of Nature and Conquest 12 The Transformation of Mining and Mining Mythology; 13 Peasant Rites of Production; 14 Mining Magic: The Mediation of Commodity Fetishism; Conclusion; The Sun Gives without Receiving: A Reinterpretation of the Devil Stories; Bibliography; Index; |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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In this classic book, Michael Taussig explores the social significance of the devil in the folklore of contemporary plantation workers and miners |
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