The Fetish Revisited : Marx, Freud, and the Gods Black People Make /

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Since the early-modern encounter between African and European merchants on the Guinea Coast, European social critics have invoked African gods as metaphors for misplaced value and agency, using the term "fetishism" chiefly to assert the irrationality of their fellow Europeans. Yet, as J. L...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Matory, James Lorand (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2018.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Marx, Karl, > 1818-1883.
Freud, Sigmund, > 1856-1939.
Religion.
Fetishism.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Black Studies (Global)
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
Fetichisme.
Africa.
Afrique > Religion.
Africa > Religion.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • A note on orthography
  • Part I. The factory, the coat, the piano,and the "Negro slave": on the Afro-Atlantic sources of Marx's fetish
  • The Afro-Atlantic context of historical materialism
  • The "Negro slave" in Marx's labor theory of value
  • Marx's fetishization of people and things
  • Conclusion to part I
  • Part II. The acropolis, the couch, the fur hat, and the "savage": on Freud's ambivalent fetish
  • The fetishes that assimilated Jewish men make
  • The fetish as an architecture of solidarity and conflict
  • The castrator and the castrated in the fetishes of psychoanalysis
  • Conclusion to part II
  • Pots, packets, beads, and foreigners: the making and the meaning of the real-life "fetish"
  • The contrary ontologies of two revolutions
  • Commodities and gods
  • The madeness of gods and other people
  • Conclusion to part III
  • Conclusion: Eshu's hat, or an Afro-Atlantic theory of theory.

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