The devil and commodity fetishism in South America /
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 discusse...
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill [N.C.] :
University of North Carolina Press,
©2010.
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Edition: | 30th anniversary ed. / |
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of 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.