Fetishism as social creativity: or, Fetishes are gods in the process of construction.  

Oleh:

Graeber, David

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Anthropological Theory vol. 05 no. 04 (Dec. 2005), page 407.
Topik: BaKongo ; fetishes ; fetishism ; social contract theory ; social creativity ; Tiv
Fulltext: 407.pdf (218.82KB)

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Originally, the term ‘fetishes’ was used by European merchants to refer to objects employed in West Africa to make and enforce agreements, often between people with almost nothing in common. They thus provide an interesting window on the problem of social creativity – especially since in classic Marxist terms they were surprisingly little fetishized. Starting with an appreciation and critique of William Pietz’s classic work on the subject, and reconsidering classic cases of Tiv spheres of exchange and BaKongo sculpture, this article aims to reimagine African fetishes, and fetishes in general, as ways of creating new social relations.

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