Title:
The devil and commodity fetishism in South America
Author:
Taussig, Michael T.
ISBN:
9780807898413
9781469604237
Edition:
30th anniversary ed. / with a new chapter by the author.
Publication Information:
Chapel Hill [N.C.] : University of North Carolina Press, ©2010.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xvii, 296 pages) : illustrations
Abstract:
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.
Electronic Access:
http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5149/9780807898413_taussigCopies:
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