The Devil and Commodity Fetishism in South America

摘要: In this classic book, Michael Taussig explores the social significance of devil in folklore contemporary plantation workers and miners South America. Grounding his analysis Marxist theory, finds that fetishization evil, image devil, mediates conflict between precapitalist capitalist modes objectifying human condition. He links traditional narratives devil-pact, which soul is bartered for illusory or transitory power, with way production economies causes to become alienated from commodities they produce. A new chapter anniversary edition features a discussion Walter Benjamin Georges Bataille extends Taussig's ideas about devil-pact metaphor.