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The Devil and Commodity Fetishism in South America

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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.

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0807841064 / 9780807841068
Paperback / softback
30/11/1983
United States
English
xiii, 264 p.
23 cm
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