num_pages: 264
description: Michael Taussig explores the social significance of the devil in the folklore of contemporary plantation workers and miners in South America. Grounding his analysis in Marxist theory, Taussig finds that the fetishization of evil, in the image of the devil, is an image which mediates the conflict between precapitalist and capitalist modes of objectifying the human condition.
language: English
title: The Devil and Commodity Fetishism in South America
titlecomplete: The Devil and Commodity Fetishism in South America
genres: Social Science, History, Religion, Sociology, School, Ethnography, Nonfiction, Theory, Academic, Anthropology
ratings_count: 446
publisher: The University of North Carolina Press