Border Fetishisms - Material Objects in Unstable Spaces

First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

List of contents

Introduction, Patricia Spyer; Chapter 1 Calvin in the Tropics: Objects and Subjects at the Religious Frontier, Webb Keane; Chapter 2 From Brooms to Obeah and Back: Fetish Conversion and Border Crossings in Nineteenth-Century Suriname, Susan Legêne; Chapter 3 Your Money, Our Money, the Government’s Money: Finance and Fetishism in Melanesia, Robert J. Foster; Chapter 4 The Spirit of Matter: On Fetish, Rarity, Fact, and Fancy, Peter Pels; Chapter 5 Stealing Happiness: Shoplifting in Early Nineteenth-Century England, Adela Pinch; Chapter 6 The Tooth of Time, or Taking a Look at the “Look” of Clothing in Late Nineteenth-Century Aru, Patricia Spyer; Chapter 7 Marx’s Coat, Peter Stallybrass; Chapter 8 Wearing Gold, Annelies Moors; Chapter 9 Crossing the Face, Michael Taussig; Afterword: How to Grow Oranges in Norway, William Pietz;

About the author

Patricia Spyer is Assistant Professor at the Research Center for Religion and Society, University of Amsterdam. She is the author of The Memory of Trade (1997).

Summary

Explores the nature of commodity fetishism using a series of empirical case studies from around the world.

Product details

• Assisted by: Patricia Spyer (Editor), Spyer Patricia (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.11.1997
• EAN: 9780415918565
• ISBN: 978-0-415-91856-5
• No. of pages: 272
• Weight: 660 g
• Series: Zones of Religion
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; Cultural Studies, RELIGION / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Consumer Behavior, HISTORY / Social History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Religion: general, Social and cultural history, Consumerism