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Paperback
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ISBN
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9780807841068
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Book Title
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Devil and Commodity Fetishism in South America
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Publisher
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University of North Carolina Press
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Item Length
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9.3 in
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Publication Year
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1983
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Trade Paperback
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Language
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English
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0.6 in
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Reprint
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Genre
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Social Science, Business & Economics
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Economic Conditions, Anthropology / Cultural & Social
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23.5 Oz
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6.1 in
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Number of Pages
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278 Pages
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Publisher
University of North Carolina Press
ISBN-10
0807841064
ISBN-13
9780807841068
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Product Key Features
Book Title
Devil and Commodity Fetishism in South America
Number of Pages
278 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Economic Conditions, Anthropology / Cultural & Social
Publication Year
1983
Features
Reprint
Genre
Social Science, Business & Economics
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.6 in
Item Weight
23.5 Oz
Item Length
9.3 in
Item Width
6.1 in
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Trade
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79-017685
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Reviews
Fortunately for the reader, the author is not only a sophisticated practicing anthropologist–and incidentally a medical man–but also a person of wide and cosmopolitan literary culture. . . . The interest of this exercise extends far beyond two backward corners of South America. How human beings make intellectual sense of the world in which they live, and which they no longer even partially control, is a question which concerns all of us. What they do with the ‘social constructions (and deceptions) of reality’ is equally significant. For men strive not only to understand but to change the world.–E. J. Hobsbawm, New York Review of Books, “Original, acute, and admirable.”” – E. J. Hobsbawm, New York Review of Books “”Fortunately for the reader, the author is not only a sophisticated practicing anthropologist–and incidentally a medical man–but also a person of wide and cosmopolitan literary culture. . . . The interest of this exercise extends far beyond two backward corners of South America. How human beings make intellectual sense of the world in which they live, and which they no longer even partially control, is a question which concerns all of us. What they do with the ‘social constructions (and deceptions) of reality’ is equally significant. For men strive not only to understand but to change the world.”” – E. J. Hobsbawm, New York Review of Books “”Taussig succeeds brilliantly in his central purpose: to help us to see the challenge as being to defetishize, to control our culture and its poetic products, and not be controlled by them.”” – Labour, Taussig succeeds brilliantly in his central purpose: to help us to see the challenge as being to defetishize, to control our culture and its poetic products, and not be controlled by them.– Labour
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Synopsis
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.
LC Classification Number
HD82.T34 1980
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