Border Fetishisms: Material Objects in Unstable Spaces (Zones of Religion)

Spyer Patricia

ISBN 10: 0415918561 / ISBN 13: 9780415918565

Published by Taylor & Francis Group, 1997

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pp. 272.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Border Fetishisms: Material Objects in Unstable Spaces (Zones of Religion)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415918561
• ISBN 13: 9780415918565
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

The essays in Border Fetishisms explore the cultural, commercial, political and erotic dimensions that distinguish fetish formations in fractured colonial and postcolonial spaces. Spanning such topics as Surinamese conversion to Christianity to shoplifting in Georgian England, to face the fetish, the contributors neither demagicalize the fetish nor normalize the commodity. Instead, they call for the inclusion of material things -- as fetishes or not -- within the experience of human sufferings and joy. Contributors: Robert J. Foster, Webb Keane, Susan Leg6~ne, Annelies Moors, Peter Pels, William Pietz, Adela Pinch, Patricia Spyer, Peter Stallybrass, Michael Taussig.

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).