{"product_id":"the-fetish-revisited-9781478000754","title":"The Fetish Revisited","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJ. Lorand Matory casts an Afro-Atlantic eye on European social theory to show how Marx's and Freud's conceptions of the fetish illuminate and misrepresent the nature of Africa's gods while demonstrating that Afro-Atlantic gods have their own social logic that is no less rational than European social theories.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"J. L. Matory provides a critical and provocative account of how the concept of the fetish has been appropriated and used as a key concept in the writings of Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud. The work is especially strong in demonstrating the fantastical appropriations of the idea of the fetish, plucked from the complex and rich contexts of meaning and agency in transatlantic black religion. . . . . A fascinating, readable, and wandering book. .  . . Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.\" -- G. E. Marcus * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e\"Matory’s \u003ci\u003eThe Fetish Revisited\u003c\/i\u003e is a masterful work, stunning in its erudition, ambitious argument, and prodigious ethnographic detail.\" -- Laura S. Grillo * Journal of the American Academy of Religion *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Fetish Revisited\u003c\/i\u003e is an important book and a pleasure to read.\" -- Steven Engler * Studies in Religion *\u003cbr\u003e\"... [Matory] offers important insights into the Afro-Atlantic origins and makings of fetishes and into the unequal relations they comprise. One of the great merits of this book is that it takes Afro-Atlantic things, practices, and voices as theory and not merely as something to be described and analyzed.\" -- Benedikt Pontzen * Anthropos *\u003cbr\u003e\"Matory's \u003ci\u003eThe Fetish Revisited\u003c\/i\u003e is a well-researched and provocative work that combines academic research with a deep intellectual reflection in a work mainly directed to the disciples of Freud and Marx, but amazingly insightful into the fields of religious studies, anthropology, ethnology and meta-theory.\" -- Cyril-Mary Pius Olatunji and Fracis Kayode Fabidun * Marx and Philosophy Review of Books *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Note on Orthography  ix\u003cbr\u003e Preface  xi\u003cbr\u003e Introduction  1\u003cbr\u003e Part I. The Factory, the Coat, the Piano, and the \"Negro Slave\": On the Afro-Atlantic Sources of Marx's Fetish  41\u003cbr\u003e 1. The Afro-Atlantic Context of Historical Materialism  45\u003cbr\u003e 2. The \"Negro-Slave\" in Marx's Labor Theory of Value  60\u003cbr\u003e 3. Marx's Fetishization of People and Things  78\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion to Part I  91\u003cbr\u003e Part II. The Acropolis, the Couch, the Fur Hat, and the \"Savage\": On Freud's Ambivalent Fetish  97\u003cbr\u003e 4. The Fetishes That Assimilated Jewish Men Make  103\u003cbr\u003e 5. The Fetish as an Architecture of Solidarity and Conflict  117\u003cbr\u003e 6. The Castrator and the Castrated in the Fetishes of Psychoanalysis  145\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion to Part II  165\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Pots, Packets, Beads, and Foreigners: The Making and the Meaning of the Real-Life \"Fetish\"  171\u003cbr\u003e 7. The Contrary Ontologies of Two Revolutions  175\u003cbr\u003e 8. Commodities and Gods  191\u003cbr\u003e 9. The Madeness of Gods and Other People  249\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion to Part III  285\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion. Eshu's Hat, or An Afro-Atlantic Theory of Theory  289\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments  325\u003cbr\u003e Notes  331\u003cbr\u003e References  339\u003cbr\u003e Index  349","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408969015639,"sku":"9781478000754","price":80.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781478000754.jpg?v=1730504904","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-fetish-revisited-9781478000754","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}