The devil and commodity fetishism in South America

著者

• Taussig, Michael T.

書誌事項

The devil and commodity fetishism in South America

Michael T. Taussig

University of North Carolina Press, c2010

30th anniversary ed / with a new chapter by the author

• : pbk.

注記

Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-287) and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

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 commodities they produce. A new chapter for this anniversary edition features a discussion of Walter Benjamin and Georges Bataille that extends Taussig's ideas about the devil-pact metaphor.

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BB07268669
• ISBN:
  • 9780807871331
• LCCN: 2010283515
• 出版国コード: us
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: Chapel Hill
• ページ数/冊数: xvii, 296 p.
• 大きさ: 23 cm
• 分類:
  • LCC : HD82
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Economic development -- Social aspects -- Case studies
  • LCSH : Plantations -- Colombia -- Cauca River Valley
  • LCSH : Tin mines and mining -- Bolivia
  • LCSH : Superstition -- Case studies