Border Fetishisms: Material Objects in Unstable Spaces

ISBN-13: 9780415918565 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 272 str.

Patricia Spyer

Opis

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

Recenzje

"...this collection should be of interest to area specialists and postmodern metatheorists." -- Nova Religio
"the authors demonstrate very clearly the hybrid nature of the fetish." -- Frank J. Korom Religious Studies Review
"Very useful for any scholar of religion interested in the intersection between materials objects, ritual, economic activity, and political ideology, or in Marxist theory." -- Religious Studies Review

O autorze

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).