LEADER 03538nam 2200673Ia 450 001 9910460019303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-4696-0423-X 010 $a0-8078-9841-4 035 $a(CKB)2670000000037582 035 $a(EBL)565708 035 $a(OCoLC)656846650 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000415812 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11304577 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000415812 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10416123 035 $a(PQKB)11701602 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC565708 035 $a(OCoLC)966766042 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse48400 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL565708 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10405063 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL930453 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000037582 100 $a20090928d2010 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe devil and commodity fetishism in South America$b[electronic resource] /$fMichael T. Taussig 205 $a30th anniversary ed. /$bwith a new chapter by the author. 210 $aChapel Hill [N.C.] $cUniversity of North Carolina Press$dc2010 215 $a1 online resource (315 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8078-7133-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [267]-287) and index. 327 $aContents; 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 327 $a11 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; 330 $aIn this classic book, 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, mediates the conflict between precapitalist and capitalist modes of objectifying the human condition. He links traditional narratives of the devil-pact, in which the soul is bartered for illusory or transitory power, with the way in which production in capitalist economies causes workers to become alienated from the com 606 $aEconomic development$xSocial aspects$vCase studies 606 $aPlantations$zColombia$zCauca River Valley 606 $aTin mines and mining$zBolivia 606 $aSuperstition$vCase studies 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aEconomic development$xSocial aspects 615 0$aPlantations 615 0$aTin mines and mining 615 0$aSuperstition 676 $a330.98003 676 $a338.9 700 $aTaussig$b Michael T$0101224 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910460019303321 996 $aThe devil and commodity fetishism in South America$92473387 997 $aUNINA