The Fetish Revisited: Marx, Freud, and the Gods Black People Make by J. Lorand Matory

The Fetish Revisited: Marx, Freud, and the Gods Black People Make

J. Lorand Matory

392 pages first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction religion challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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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 irrational...

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