The problem of the fetish / William Pietz ; edited by Francesco Pellizzi, Stefanos Geroulanos and Ben Kafka.

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Pietz, William [author]

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TextLanguage: English Publication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2022.ISBN:

9780226821818

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Fetishism

Summary: "In recent decades, William Pietz’s innovative history of the idea of the fetish has become a cult classic. Gathered here, for the first time, is his complete series of essays on fetishism, supplemented by three texts on Marx, blood sacrifice, and the money value of human life. Tracing the idea of the fetish from its origins in the Portuguese colonization of West Africa to its place in Enlightenment thought and beyond, Pietz reveals the violent emergence of a foundational concept for modern theories of value, belief, desire, and difference. This book cements Pietz’s legacy of engaging questions about material culture, object agency, merchant capitalism, and spiritual power, and introduces a powerful theorist to a new generation of thinkers."--

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Item type	Home library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Print	OPJGU Sonepat- Campus Main Library	General Books	202.1 PI-P (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Checked out	05/01/2025	147543
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"In recent decades, William Pietz’s innovative history of the idea of the fetish has become a cult classic. Gathered here, for the first time, is his complete series of essays on fetishism, supplemented by three texts on Marx, blood sacrifice, and the money value of human life. Tracing the idea of the fetish from its origins in the Portuguese colonization of West Africa to its place in Enlightenment thought and beyond, Pietz reveals the violent emergence of a foundational concept for modern theories of value, belief, desire, and difference. This book cements Pietz’s legacy of engaging questions about material culture, object agency, merchant capitalism, and spiritual power, and introduces a powerful theorist to a new generation of thinkers."--

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