ANTHRO 3AC Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Commodity Fetishism, Social Relation
Document Summary
The devil and commodity fetishism (taussig): week 8 lecture. Ii- common explanation of religion and magic: anxiety relief, ensures reciprocity, problems with functionalist explanations. Iii- two moses of production: peasant and capitalism: use-value, exchange-value. Time is bought and sold as a commodity: commodities. V- between two modes of production: devil image as critique. Looks at societies given process of being proletarianized (shift from peasant mode of production to capitalism: own land, large landholdings, work for wages); proletarians are those who sell their labor as a commodity; labor is primary value. Proletarianized societies are not entirely capitalist as they still contain elements of proletarian societies. The devil significance (in ritual practices); devil stands negative symbol to stand for evil; the devil has emerged as these societies became more capitalized: devil"s presence doesn"t have to do w poverty but w economic system.
