Border Fetishisms: Material Objects in Unstable Spaces

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Patricia Spyer
Psychology Press, 1998 - 262 pages
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.
 

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at the Religious Frontier
13
Fetish Conversion
35
On Fetish Rarity Fact and Fancy 91 16
91
Shoplifting in Early
122
The Tooth of Time or Taking a Look at the Look
150
Marxs Coat
183
Wearing Gold
208
Crossing the Face
224
How to Grow Oranges in Norway
245
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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).

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