The Devil and Commodity Fetishism in South America 2nd Edition by Michael Taussig 0807871338 9780807871331

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ISBN 10: 0807871338

ISBN 13: 9780807871331

Author: Michael T. Taussig

In this classic book, 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, mediates the conflict between precapitalist and capitalist modes of objectifying the human condition. He links traditional narratives of the devil-pact, in which the soul is bartered for illusory or transitory power, with the way in which production in capitalist economies causes workers to become alienated from the commodities they produce. A new chapter for this anniversary edition features a discussion of Walter Benjamin and Georges Bataille that extends Taussig’s ideas about the devil-pact metaphor.

The Devil and Commodity Fetishism in South America 2nd Table of contents:

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

 

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