TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pietz, William, 
AU  - Pellizzi,Francesco
AU  - Geroulanos,Stefanos
AU  - Kafka,Ben
TI  - The problem of the fetish
SN  - 9780226821818
PY  - 2022///
CY  - Chicago
PB  - University of Chicago Press
KW  - Fetishism
N2  - "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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