The history and theory of fetishism / Alfonso Maurizio Iacono ; translated by Viktoria Tchernichova and Monica Boria ; with the collaboration of Elizabeth MacDonald.
This book aims to provide the historical context necessary to understanding the concept of 'fetishism' and offers an overview of the ideologies, prejudices, and critical senses that shaped the Western observer's view of otherness and of his own world.--
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Houndmills, Basingstoke :
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[2016]
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; One The Theoretical and Historical Assumptions Underpinning the Concept of Fetishism; Two Charles de Brosses's Th eory of Fetishism; Three The Concept of Fetishism as a Theoretical and Historical Problem; Four Marx's Theory of Fetishism; Five History, Nature, and System: Marx's Anthropological Conception; Notes; Bibliography; Index.