The devil and commodity fetishism in South America / / Michael T. Taussig
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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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| Pubblicazione: | Chapel Hill [N.C.], : University of North Carolina Press, c2010 |
| Edizione: | 30th anniversary ed. / |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (315 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 330.98003 |
| 338.9 | |
| Soggetto topico: | Economic development - Social aspects |
| Plantations - Colombia - Cauca River Valley | |
| Tin mines and mining - Bolivia | |
| Superstition | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-287) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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; | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | In 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The devil and commodity fetishism in South America |
| ISBN: | 979-88-9313-455-1 |
| 1-4696-0423-X | |
| 0-8078-9841-4 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910815234803321 |
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