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

Patricia Spyer (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 22, 1997 | ISBN-10: 041591857X | ISBN-13: 978-0415918572 | Edition: 1

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.

Editorial Reviews

Review

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
This collection should be of interest to area specialists and postmodern metatheorists. -- Nova Religio, Maureen Korp.
...this collection should be of interest to area specialists and postmodern metatheorists. -- Nova Religio

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).

Product Details

• Paperback: 272 pages
• Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (November 22, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 041591857X
• ISBN-13: 978-0415918572
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
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