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The Problem of the Fetish

The Problem of the Fetish - Paperback

by William Pietz
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Availability:In StockContributor:William PietzPublish date:2022-11-18Pages:272
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Chicago PressISBN-13:9780226821818ISBN-10:226821811UPC:9780226821818Book Category:Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Ethnic Studies, AnthropologyBook Topic:African Studies, Cultural & SocialSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.61 inchesWeight:0.8708Product ID:SCV6AE0HKF
A groundbreaking account of the origins and history of the idea of fetishism.

In recent decades, William Pietz's innovative history of the idea of the fetish has become a cult classic. Gathered here, for the first time, is his complete series of essays on fetishism, supplemented by three texts on Marx, blood sacrifice, and the money value of human life. Tracing the idea of the fetish from its origins in the Portuguese colonization of West Africa to its place in Enlightenment thought and beyond, Pietz reveals the violent emergence of a foundational concept for modern theories of value, belief, desire, and difference. This book cements Pietz's legacy of engaging questions about material culture, object agency, merchant capitalism, and spiritual power, and introduces a powerful theorist to a new generation of thinkers.
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Chicago PressISBN-13:9780226821818ISBN-10:226821811UPC:9780226821818Book Category:Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Ethnic Studies, AnthropologyBook Topic:African Studies, Cultural & SocialSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.61 inchesWeight:0.8708Product ID:SCV6AE0HKF
William Pietz is an intellectual historian and political activist. Francesco Pellizzi is the cofounder and editor of RES: Journal of Anthropology and Aesthetics. Stefanos Geroulanos is professor of history at New York University and the author of several books, including (with Todd Meyers) The Human Body in the Age of Catastrophe. Ben Kafka is a psychoanalyst and associate professor of media, culture, and communication at New York University. He is the author of The Demon of Writing.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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