The Devil and Commodity Fetishism in South America / Michael T. Taussig.

By:

Taussig, Michael T

Publication details: Chapel Hill [N.C.] : University of North Carolina Press, c2010.Edition: 30th anniversary ed. / with a new chapter by the authorDescription: xvii, 296 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:

9780807871331 (pbk.)
0807871338 (pbk.)

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DDC classification:

338.9 TAU

LOC classification:

HD82 .T34 2010

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Table of Contents

Contents:

Table of Contents Preface to the Thirtieth Anniversary Edition xi; Preface xv; Part I Fetishism: The Master Trope; 1 Fetishism and Dialectical Deconstruction 3; 2 The Devil and Commodity Fetishism 13; Part II The Plantations of the Cauca Valley, Colombia; 3 Slave Religion and the Rise of the Free Peasantry 41; 4 Owners and Fences 70; 5 The Devil and the Cosmogenesis of Capitalism 93; 6 Pollution, Contradiction, and Salvation 112; 7 The Baptism of Money and the Secret of Capital 126; Part III The Bolivian Tin Mines; 8 The Devil in the Mines 143; 9 The Worship of Nature 155; 10 The Problem of Evil 169; 11 The Iconography of Nature and Conquest 182; 12 The Transformation of Mining and Mining Mythology 199; 13 Peasant Rites of Production 214; 14 Mining Magic: The Mediation of Commodity Fetishism 223; Conclusion 229; The Sun Gives without Receiving: A Reinterpretation of the Devil Stones 235; Bibliography 267; Index 289

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Table of Contents
Preface to the Thirtieth Anniversary Edition xi;
Preface xv;
Part I Fetishism: The Master Trope;
1 Fetishism and Dialectical Deconstruction 3;
2 The Devil and Commodity Fetishism 13;
Part II The Plantations of the Cauca Valley, Colombia;
3 Slave Religion and the Rise of the Free Peasantry 41;
4 Owners and Fences 70;
5 The Devil and the Cosmogenesis of Capitalism 93;
6 Pollution, Contradiction, and Salvation 112;
7 The Baptism of Money and the Secret of Capital 126;
Part III The Bolivian Tin Mines;
8 The Devil in the Mines 143;
9 The Worship of Nature 155;
10 The Problem of Evil 169;
11 The Iconography of Nature and Conquest 182;
12 The Transformation of Mining and Mining Mythology 199;
13 Peasant Rites of Production 214;
14 Mining Magic: The Mediation of Commodity Fetishism 223;
Conclusion 229;
The Sun Gives without Receiving: A Reinterpretation of the Devil Stones 235;
Bibliography 267;
Index 289

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