The Fetish Revisited: Marx, Freud, and the Gods Black People Make - Paperback
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Duke University PressISBN-13:9781478001058ISBN-10:1478001054UPC:9781478001058Book Category:Social Science, ReligionBook Subcategory:Black Studies (Global), AnthropologyBook Topic:Cultural & SocialSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 1.00 inchesWeight:1.2522Product ID:SCT7JFEC92
The Fetish Revisited: Marx, Freud, and the Gods Black People Make
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. Lorand Matory demonstrates in The Fetish Revisited, Afro-Atlantic gods have a materially embodied social logic...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Duke University PressISBN-13:9781478001058ISBN-10:1478001054UPC:9781478001058Book Category:Social Science, ReligionBook Subcategory:Black Studies (Global), AnthropologyBook Topic:Cultural & SocialSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 1.00 inchesWeight:1.2522Product ID:SCT7JFEC92
J. Lorand Matory is Lawrence Richardson Professor of Cultural Anthropology and Director of the Sacred Arts of the Black Atlantic Project at Duke University. He is the author of Stigma and Culture: Last-Place Anxiety in Black America; Black Atlantic Religion: Tradition, Transnationalism, and Matriarchy in the Afro-Brazilian Candombl?; and Sex and the Empire That Is No More: Gender and the Politics...
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