J Lorand Matory

The Fetish Revisited

Marx, Freud, and the Gods Black People Make

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Produktbeschreibung

J. Lorand Matory is Lawrence Richardson Professor of Cultural Anthropology and Director of the Sacred Arts of the Black Atlantic Project at Duke University. He is the author of Stigma and Culture: Last-Place Anxiety in Black America; Black Atlantic Religion: Tradition, Transnationalism, and Matriarchy in the Afro-Brazilian Candomblé; and Sex and the Empire That Is No More: Gender and the Politics of Metaphor in Oyo Yoruba Religion.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 392
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. November 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 703g
• ISBN-13: 9781478000754
• ISBN-10: 1478000759
• Artikelnr.: 50987216

Autorenporträt

J. Lorand Matory

Inhaltsangabe

A Note on Orthography  ix
Preface  xi
Introduction  1
Part I. The Factory, the Coat, the Piano, and the "Negro Slave": On the
Afro-Atlantic Sources of Marx's Fetish  41
1. The Afro-Atlantic Context of Historical Materialism  45
2. The "Negro-Slave" in Marx's Labor Theory of Value  60
3. Marx's Fetishization of People and Things  78
Conclusion to Part I  91
Part II. The Acropolis, the Couch, the Fur Hat, and the "Savage": On
Freud's Ambivalent Fetish  97
4. The Fetishes That Assimilated Jewish Men Make  103
5. The Fetish as an Architecture of Solidarity and Conflict  117
6. The Castrator and the Castrated in the Fetishes of Psychoanalysis  145
Conclusion to Part II  165
Part III. Pots, Packets, Beads, and Foreigners: The Making and the Meaning
of the Real-Life "Fetish"  171
7. The Contrary Ontologies of Two Revolutions  175
8. Commodities and Gods  191
9. The Madeness of Gods and Other People  249
Conclusion to Part III  285
Conclusion. Eshu's Hat, or An Afro-Atlantic Theory of Theory  289
Acknowledgments  325
Notes  331
References  339
Index  349