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Author Taussig, Michael T.

Title The devil and commodity fetishism in South America / Michael T. Taussig.

Publication Info. Chapel Hill [N.C.] : University of North Carolina Press, [2010]
©2010
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Edition 30th anniversary ed. / with a new chapter by the author.
Description 1 online resource (xvii, 296 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome.
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-287) and index.
Contents Preface to the Thirtieth Anniversary Edition; Preface; PART I: Fetishism: The Master Trope; PART II: The Plantations of the Cauca Valley, Colombia; PART III: The Bolivian Tin Mines; Conclusion; The Sun Gives without Receiving: A Reinterpretation of the Devil Stories; Bibliography; Index.
Summary In this classic book, Taussig explores the social significance of the devil in the folklore of contemporary plantation workers and miners in South America. A new chapter for this anniversary edition features a discussion of Walter Benjamin and Georges Bataille that extends some of the ideas discussed in the original text.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Economic development -- Social aspects -- Case studies.
Economic development -- Social aspects.
Genre/Form Case studies.
Subject Plantations -- Colombia -- Cauca River Valley.
Plantations.
Colombia -- Cauca River Valley.
Tin mines and mining -- Bolivia.
Tin mines and mining.
Bolivia.
Superstition -- Case studies.
Superstition.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Electronic books -- Case studies.
Case studies.
Other Form: Print version: Taussig, Michael T. Devil and commodity fetishism in South America. 30th anniversary ed. Chapel Hill [N.C.] : University of North Carolina Press, ©2010 9780807871331 (OCoLC)441211375
ISBN 9780807898413 (electronic book)
0807898414 (electronic book)
9781469604237 (electronic book)
146960423X (electronic book)
9780807871331
0807871338

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