The Devil and Commodity Fetishism in South America

by Michael T . Taussig (Author)

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  Illustrated
  2010

  $60.58

  In this classic book, Michael Taussig explores the social significance of the devil in the folklore of contemporary plantation workers and miners in South America. Grounding his analysis in Marxist theory, Taussig finds that the fetishization of evil, in the image of the devil, mediates the conflict between precapitalist and capitalist modes of objectifying the human condition.