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Book The Land of Fetish

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  • Author : A. B. Ellis
  • Publisher : DigiCat
  • Release : 2022-06-03
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 190 pages

Download or read book The Land of Fetish written by A. B. Ellis and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-06-03 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by a British army officer, this book delves into his experiences serving and traveling across West Africa, including countries such as Gambia, Nigeria, Ivory Coast, and Benin. Though some of the descriptions are rather dated, it nevertheless provides an interesting perspective of the various tribes that reside in the region.

Book The Land of Fetish

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  • Author : Alfred Burdon Ellis
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2021
  • ISBN : 9781465660060
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book The Land of Fetish written by Alfred Burdon Ellis and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Land of Fetish

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  • Author : Alfred Burton Ellis
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2014-03
  • ISBN : 9781497845558
  • Pages : 324 pages

Download or read book The Land of Fetish written by Alfred Burton Ellis and published by . This book was released on 2014-03 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Is A New Release Of The Original 1883 Edition.

Book The Land of Fetish

Download or read book The Land of Fetish written by Alfred Burdon Ellis and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Land of Fetish

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  • Author : Alfred Burdon Ellis
  • Publisher : Forgotten Books
  • Release : 2015-06-27
  • ISBN : 9781330426302
  • Pages : 359 pages

Download or read book The Land of Fetish written by Alfred Burdon Ellis and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-27 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Land of Fetish About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Book The Automatic Fetish

Download or read book The Automatic Fetish written by Beverley Best and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2024-05-21 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why you should read all three volumes of Marx's Capital together The Automatic Fetish recreates Marx's analysis of capital, step-by-step, through the material compiled posthumously as Capital, Volume three. Identifying the critique of value as the central through-line of the analysis, Best elaborates Marx's theory of value as a theory of movement through which the capital-machine generates social forms of appearance that are the inversions of its inner operating mechanisms. Characterizing capital’s movement and the dynamic production of social form as a 'perceptual physics,' Best demonstrates the consistency and the coherency with which Marx's theory of value orients all trajectories of analysis in Capital 3, as well as providing the conceptual bridge between Volumes on. The book illustrates the way in which capital’s development to this day is as much as a story of the continuity of capital's inner dynamics as it is a story of ongoing transformation of capital's surface-forms. Best develops, through Marx's critique, an analysis of money, credit, crisis, and the derivatives of profit-interest and ground-rent, that takes the reader from their emergence as capitalist forms to their current expressions. Neither a back-to-basics nor newfangled reconstruction, The Automatic Fetish eschews novelty to show why, once again, Marx deserves to be read carefully.

Book Metropolitan Fetish

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  • Author : John Warne Monroe
  • Publisher : Cornell University Press
  • Release : 2019-09-15
  • ISBN : 1501736361
  • Pages : 375 pages

Download or read book Metropolitan Fetish written by John Warne Monroe and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-09-15 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the 1880s to 1940, French colonial officials, businessmen and soldiers, returning from overseas postings, brought home wooden masks and figures from Africa. This imperial and cultural power-play is the jumping-off point for a story that travels from sub-Saharan Africa to Parisian art galleries; from the pages of fashion magazines, through the doors of the Louvre, to world fairs and international auction rooms; into the apartments of avant-garde critics and poets; to the streets of Harlem, and then full-circle back to colonial museums and schools in Dakar, Bamako, and Abidjan. John Warne Monroe guides us on this journey, one that goes far beyond the world of Picasso, Matisse, and Braque, to show how the Modernist avant-garde and the European colonial project influenced each other in profound and unexpected ways. Metropolitan Fetish reveals the complex trajectory of African material culture in the West and provides a map of that passage, tracing the interaction of cultural and imperial power. A broad and far-reaching history of the French reception of African art, it brings to life an era in which the aesthetic category of "primitive art" was invented.

Book We Are Not Dreamers

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  • Author : Leisy J. Abrego
  • Publisher : Duke University Press
  • Release : 2020-08-14
  • ISBN : 1478012382
  • Pages : 170 pages

Download or read book We Are Not Dreamers written by Leisy J. Abrego and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2020-08-14 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The widely recognized “Dreamer narrative” celebrates the educational and economic achievements of undocumented youth to justify a path to citizenship. While a well-intentioned, strategic tactic to garner political support of undocumented youth, it has promoted the idea that access to citizenship and rights should be granted only to a select group of “deserving” immigrants. The contributors to We Are Not Dreamers—themselves currently or formerly undocumented—poignantly counter the Dreamer narrative by grappling with the nuances of undocumented life in this country. Theorizing those excluded from the Dreamer category—academically struggling students, transgender activists, and queer undocumented parents—the contributors call for an expansive articulation of immigrant rights and justice that recognizes the full humanity of undocumented immigrants while granting full and unconditional rights. Illuminating how various institutions reproduce and benefit from exclusionary narratives, this volume articulates the dangers of the Dreamer narrative and envisions a different way forward. Contributors. Leisy J. Abrego, Gabrielle Cabrera, Gabriela Garcia Cruz, Lucía León, Katy Joseline Maldonado Dominguez, Grecia Mondragón, Gabriela Monico, Genevieve Negrón-Gonzales, Maria Liliana Ramirez, Joel Sati, Audrey Silvestre, Carolina Valdivia

Book The Problem of the Fetish

Download or read book The Problem of the Fetish written by William Pietz and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2022-11-18 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Problem of the Fetish gathers William Pietz's innovative writing on the fetish object and the history of the "fetish" as a concept. Engaging extensively with historical documents, Pietz traces the genealogy of fetishism from encounters between European colonizers and African communities in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to the emerging social sciences. Discussing the role of fetishism in anthropology, political economy, psychiatry, and law, he analyzes the relationship between the fetish and value, violence, sacrifice, and debt. To accompany Pietz's seven essays, this long-awaited volume includes a foreword by Francesco Pellizzi, editor of RES, the journal in which several of the essays originally appeared, and it also includes an introduction by Stefanos Geroulanos and Ben Kafka, who provide an invaluable guide to Pietz's thought. This book will speak to Pietz's multidisciplinary readership, continuing his legacy of engaging with questions of material culture, object agency, merchant capitalism, and spiritual power, and introducing the work of a powerful theorist to new generations of scholars and thinkers"--

Book Growth Fetish

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  • Author : Clive Hamilton
  • Publisher : Allen & Unwin
  • Release : 2003
  • ISBN : 1741150949
  • Pages : 281 pages

Download or read book Growth Fetish written by Clive Hamilton and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2003 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accessible critique of Western society under capitalism by leading scholar.

Book Victorian Fetishism

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  • Author : Peter Melville Logan
  • Publisher : State University of New York Press
  • Release : 2008-12-18
  • ISBN : 0791477282
  • Pages : 220 pages

Download or read book Victorian Fetishism written by Peter Melville Logan and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2008-12-18 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Victorian Fetishism argues that fetishism was central to the development of cultural theory in the nineteenth century. From 1850 to 1900, when theories of social evolution reached their peak, European intellectuals identified all "primitive" cultures with "Primitive Fetishism," a psychological form of self-projection in which people believe everything in the external world—thunderstorms, trees, stones—is alive. Placing themselves at the opposite extreme of cultural evolution, the Victorians defined culture not by describing what culture was but by describing what it was not, and what it was not was fetishism. In analyses of major works by Matthew Arnold, George Eliot, and Edward B. Tylor, Peter Melville Logan demonstrates the paradoxical role of fetishism in Victorian cultural theory, namely, how Victorian writers projected their own assumptions about fetishism onto the realm of historical fact, thereby "fetishizing" fetishism. The book concludes by examining how fetishism became a sexual perversion as well as its place within current cultural theory.

Book Fetish

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  • Author : Orlando Ricardo Menes
  • Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
  • Release : 2022-07-18
  • ISBN : 1496209184
  • Pages : 82 pages

Download or read book Fetish written by Orlando Ricardo Menes and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2022-07-18 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From sensual pleasures and perils, moments and memories of darkness and light, the poems in Orlando Ricardo Menes's collection sew together stories of dislocation and loss, of survival and hope, and of a world patched together by a family over five generations of diaspora. This is Menes's tapestry of the Americas. From Miami to Cuba, Panama to Bolivia and Peru, through the textures, sounds, colors, shapes, and scents of exile and emigration, we find refuge at last in a sense of wholeness and belonging residing in this intensely felt, finely crafted poetry.

Book The Returns of Fetishism

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  • Author : Charles de Brosses
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2017-07-26
  • ISBN : 022646475X
  • Pages : 442 pages

Download or read book The Returns of Fetishism written by Charles de Brosses and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2017-07-26 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Fetishism (supposing that it existed)": a preface to the translation of Charles de Brosses's Transgression / Rosalind C. Morris -- Introduction: fetishism, figurism, and myths of enlightenment / Daniel H. Leonard -- A note on the translation / Daniel H. Leonard -- On the worship of fetish gods; or, a parallel of the ancient religion of Egypt with the present religion of Nigritia / Charles de Brosses ; translated by Daniel H. Leonard -- After De Brosses: fetishism, translation, comparativism, critique / Rosalind C. Morris -- A fetiche is a fetiche: no knowledge without difference of the word: rereading De Brosses -- Excursus: recontextualizing De Brosses, with Pietz in and out of Africa -- Re Kant and the good fetishists among us -- Hegel: back to the heart of darkness -- Fetishism against itself; or, Marx's two fetishisms -- The great fetish; or, the fetishism of the one -- Freud and the return to the dark continent: the other fetish -- Conjuncture: Freud and Marx, via Lacan -- Anthropology's fetishism: the custodianship of reality -- Fetishism reanimated: surrealism, ethnography, and the war against decay -- Deconstruction's fetish: undecidable, or the mark of Hegel -- Rehistoricizing generalized fetishism: the era of objects -- Anthropological redux: the reality of fetishism -- The fetish is dead, long live fetishism

Book The Book of Fetishes

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  • Author : J. C. Fetish
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2012-04-03
  • ISBN : 9781475125283
  • Pages : 114 pages

Download or read book The Book of Fetishes written by J. C. Fetish and published by . This book was released on 2012-04-03 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Book of Fetishes is a collection of erotic fetish short stories. If you'd like to sample a few different fun and playful fetishes, this is the book for you. Blow Me: Ever since Daniel was young, he has always had a strange obsession with balloons. Now that he's older, it's become something much more. When he shares his secret with his girlfriend, Amanda, he finds that she's much more accepting than he could have ever hoped for.Take Me: Rachel goes home for a night of relaxation in solitude, but little does she know she has an unexpected visitor - a man who has been watching her for weeks. When she finds him in his apartment, she knows right away that she's in for one crazy night.Kiss Me: Cindy and Rick share a special bond that neither one has been able to speak about with family or friends. They both have a shoe fetish. There is nothing better than when Cindy brings home a new pair of shoes for the two to enjoy, but after a long period of nothing new, the passion begins to die down. When Cindy finds the perfect pair that combines everything she and her husband love in shoes, she decides to surprise him.RAM Me: Abby is tired of being recognized for all of the wrong things. She's beautiful and intelligent, but no man seems to see it. She builds a robot as a last ditch effort to get the worst of the men to stop harassing her, but finds herself drawn to her creation in very unexpected ways.Trust Me: Adam knew that his girlfriend, Stephanie, had a unique side job, but hadn't never been interested in becoming one of her clients. After taking a new job though, he finds himself stretched to the point where he's going crazy. Seeing Adam distressed and feeling his resistance to trusting her, she decides to pull out the whip.Write Me: Jenny decides to do something a little wild for the first time in her life: Start exchanging letters with an inmate. While she doesn't intend on taking it further than a few raunchy letters, she'll find her defenses beginning to weaken.

Book The Fetish Revisited

Download or read book The Fetish Revisited written by J. Lorand Matory and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-26 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the early-modern encounter between African and European merchants on the Guinea Coast, European social critics have invoked African gods as metaphors for misplaced value and agency, using the term “fetishism” chiefly to assert the irrationality of their fellow Europeans. Yet, as J. Lorand Matory demonstrates in The Fetish Revisited, Afro-Atlantic gods have a materially embodied social logic of their own, which is no less rational than the social theories of Marx and Freud. Drawing on thirty-six years of fieldwork in Africa, Europe, and the Americas, Matory casts an Afro-Atlantic eye on European theory to show how Marx’s and Freud’s conceptions of the fetish both illuminate and misrepresent Africa’s human-made gods. Through this analysis, the priests, practices, and spirited things of four major Afro-Atlantic religions simultaneously call attention to the culture-specific, materially conditioned, physically embodied, and indeed fetishistic nature of Marx’s and Freud’s theories themselves. Challenging long-held assumptions about the nature of gods and theories, Matory offers a novel perspective on the social roots of these tandem African and European understandings of collective action, while illuminating the relationship of European social theory to the racism suffered by Africans and assimilated Jews alike.

Book Journal of the Society of Comparative Legislation

Download or read book Journal of the Society of Comparative Legislation written by Society of Comparative Legislation and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes an annual "Review of legislation".

Book Journal of the African Society

Download or read book Journal of the African Society written by African Society and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: