Border Fetishisms

The essays in Border Fetishisms explore the cultural commercial political and erotic dimensions that distinguish fetish formations in fractured colonial and postcolonial spaces. Spanning such topics as Surinamese conversion to Christianity to shoplifting in Georgian England to face the fetish the contributors neither demagicalize the fetish nor normalize the commodity. Instead they call for the inclusion of material things -- as fetishes or not -- within the experience of human sufferings and joy. Contributors: Robert J. Foster Webb Keane Susan Leg6~ne Annelies Moors Peter Pels William Pietz Adela Pinch Patricia Spyer Peter Stallybrass Michael Taussig.