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

by J Lorand Matory and J. Lorand Matory

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1478000759
• ISBN13: 9781478000754
• Release Date: November 2018
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.3"