The Devil and Commodity Fetishism in South America by Taussig, Michael T. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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THE DEVIL AND COMMODITY FETISHISM IN SOUTH AMERICA

Contents Preface to the Thirtieth Anniversary Edition Preface PART I Fetishism: The Master Trope CHAPTER 1 Fetishism and Dialectical Deconstruction CHAPTER 2 The Devil and Commodity Fetishism

Interpretations Attitudes to Wage Labor and Capitalist Development Commodity Fetishism Fetishism: Precapitalist versus Capitalist

PART II The Plantations of the Cauca Valley, Colombia CHAPTER 3 Slave Religion and the Rise of the Free Peasantry

Manumission, Laissez-Faire, and Regional Disarticulation Refractory Tenants: Idlers and Rebels Contradictions of the Transition Period Religion and Class War Ethnographic Postscript: 1970

CHAPTER 4 Owners and Fences

The Commercialization of Peasant Agriculture The Violencia The Dual Nature of the Proletariat The Art of Peasant Farming The Articulation of Modes of Production

CHAPTER 5 The Devil and the Cosmogenesis of Capitalism

The Devil and Proletarian Labor Modes of Interpretation

The Coast The Local Peasants Women

Cosmogony Cosmology Enacted Incredulity and the Sociology of Evil

CHAPTER 6 Pollution, Contradiction, and Salvation

The Antinomies of Production Fetishism and Hermeneutics

CHAPTER 7 The Baptism of Money and the Secret of Capital

The Baptism of Money and the Birth of Capital Analogical Reason and the Philosophy of Use-Values The Devil Contract and the Magic of Capitalist Production Conclusion

PART III The Bolivian Tin Mines CHAPTER 8 The Devil in the Mines CHAPTER 9 The Worship of Nature

Crypto-Paganism Cosmology: Animated Structuralism The Iconography of Nature

CHAPTER 10 The Problem of Evil

Morality and Duality

CHAPTER 11 The Iconography of Nature and Conquest

Messianism Evil and Social Control White Gods? Variations Reciprocation and Mediation

CHAPTER 12 The Transformation of Mining and Mining Mythology

Preconquest Mining Colonial Mining Religion and the Change to Colonial Mining Nineteenth-Century Peruvian Mines The Devil, the Virgin, and Salvation in Contemporary Bolivian Mining The Battle of the Gods and the Struggle for Fertility From the Spirit of the Mountains to the Devil in the Mines

CHAPTER 13 Peasant Rites of Production CHAPTER 14 Mining Magic: The Mediation of Commodity Fetishism Conclusion The Sun Gives without Receiving:

A Reinterpretation of the Devil Stories1 Sun Devil's Pact

Gold Spirit Queen Life Cocaine Oil

The Accursed Share: Theories of Consumption Say Nothing (Can You Believe It?) about the Meaning of Consumption The Gift The Negation of the Negation Aftereffect Notes

Bibliography Index