Border Fetishisms

Patricia Spyer is Assistant Professor at the Research Center for Religion and Society, University of Amsterdam. She is the author of The Memory of Trade (1997).

• Introduction, Patricia Spyer; Chapter 1 Calvin in the Tropics: Objects and Subjects at the Religious Frontier, Webb Keane; Chapter 2 From Brooms to Obeah and Back: Fetish Conversion and Border Crossings in Nineteenth-Century Suriname, Susan Legêne; Chapter 3 Your Money, Our Money, the Government’s Money: Finance and Fetishism in Melanesia, Robert J. Foster; Chapter 4 The Spirit of Matter: On Fetish, Rarity, Fact, and Fancy, Peter Pels; Chapter 5 Stealing Happiness: Shoplifting in Early Nineteenth-Century England, Adela Pinch; Chapter 6 The Tooth of Time, or Taking a Look at the “Look” of Clothing in Late Nineteenth-Century Aru, Patricia Spyer; Chapter 7 Marx’s Coat, Peter Stallybrass; Chapter 8 Wearing Gold, Annelies Moors; Chapter 9 Crossing the Face, Michael Taussig; Afterword: How to Grow Oranges in Norway, William Pietz;

"...this collection should be of interest to area specialists and postmodern metatheorists." -- NovaReligio"the authors demonstrate very clearly the hybrid nature of the fetish." -- Frank J. Korom Religious Studies Review"Very useful for any scholar of religion interested in the intersection between materials objects, ritual, economic activity, and political ideology, or in Marxist theory." -- Religious Studies Review