The devil and commodity fetishism in South America / Michael T. Taussig.
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TextPublication details: Chapel Hill [N.C.] : University of North Carolina Press, ©2010.Edition: 30th anniversary ed. / with a new chapter by the authorDescription: 1 online resource (xvii, 296 pages) : illustrationsContent type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780807898413
- 0807898414
- 9781469604237
- 146960423X
- Economic development -- Social aspects -- Case studies
- Plantations -- Colombia -- Cauca River Valley
- Tin mines and mining -- Bolivia
- Superstition -- Case studies
- Plantations -- Colombie -- Cauca, Vallée du
- Superstitions -- Études de cas
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Economic Policy
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Government & Business
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Development -- Economic Development
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Development -- Business Development
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Structural Adjustment
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Development -- General
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural
- Economic development -- Social aspects
- Plantations
- Superstition
- Tin mines and mining
- Bolivia
- Colombia -- Cauca River Valley
- 338.9 22
- HD82 .T34 2010eb
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-287) and index.
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.
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.
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