Border Fetishisms: Material Objects in Unstable Spaces (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780415918572)

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.

Author: Patricia Spyer
ISBN-10: 041591857X
ISBN-13: 9780415918572
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 11/20/1997
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.81lbs
Size: 9.05h x 6.04w x 0.66d