Explores the nature of commodity fetishism using a series of empirical case studies from around the world.
The essays here explore the varied nature of commodity fetishism in colonial & post-colonial spaces. Using case studies the contributors call for the inclusion of material things within the wider human experience.
The essays here explore the varied nature of commodity fetishism in colonial & post-colonial spaces. Using case studies the contributors call for the inclusion of material things within the wider human experience.
Handbook of material culture
by Küchler, Susanne, Spyer, Patricia, Keane, Webb, Tilley, Chris, Rowlands, Mike
The Memory of Trade is an ethnographic study of the people of Aru, an archipelago in eastern Indonesia. Central to Patricia Spyer's study is the fraught identification of Aruese people with two imaginary elsewheres--the 'Aru' and the 'Malay'--and the fissured construction of com…
Annotation
Religion and Media
by Adorno, Theodor W., Derrida, Jacques, Luhmann, Niklas, Nancy, Jean-Luc, Bal, Mieke, Asad, Talal, McNamara, Andrew, Sanchez, Rafael, Saussy, Haun, Mamdani, Mahmood, Fischer, Michael M. J., Weber, Samuel, Butler, Rex, Koch, Gertrud, Bernard, Rosemarie, Lipner, Julius, Marrati, Paola, Pranger, Burcht, Schiffauer, Werner, Schneider, Manfred, Siegel, James T., Slatman, Jenny, Spyer, Patricia, Vries, Hent de
fromCultural memory in the present
The latter part of the twentieth century saw an explosion of new media that effected profound changes in human categories of communication. At the same time, a "return to religion" occurred on a global scale. The twenty-five contributors to this volume--who include such influent…