Fetishism And Culture

Author : Hartmut Böhme
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110303450
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fetishism and Culture written by Hartmut Böhme and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2014-08-25 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hartmut Böhme’s study of fetishism spans all the way from Christian image magic in the Middle Ages to fetishistic practices in fashion, advertising, sport and popular culture today. In it he provides a thorough exploration of religion, magic, idolatry, sexuality and consumption, charting the mental, scientific and artistic processes through which fetishism became a central category in European culture’s account of itself.

Author : Henry Krips
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501731815
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fetish written by Henry Krips and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-05 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Fetish, Henry Krips draws together Freudian and Marxian insights to provide accounts of fetishism and the gaze that afford new ways of understanding the relation of the individual to the social, of pleasure to desire. He uses discrete cultural artifacts as windows through which to view local instances of the mediation of pleasure and desire, demonstrating that users of cultural objects adapt them to suit their own strategic ends. Ranging widely over texts and cultures, he discusses Hopi initiation rites, Holbein's painting The Ambassadors, Robert Boyle's early scientific manual New Experiments Physico-Chemical, Toni Morrison's Beloved, the popular television series Mystery Science Theatre 3000, and David Cronenberg's film Crash. Jacques Lacan's theory of the gaze and Louis Althusser's theory of ideology frame Krips's perspectives on fetishism and the discourse of perversion, which he considers in light of postcolonial theory, the history of science, screen theory, and, of course, psychoanalysis. What results is a work remarkable for its clear exposition and its sophisticated synthesis of major theorists, its provocative argument that pleasure comes not from attaining desire but rather from moving around its object-cause.

Author : L. Kaplan
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230601200
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cultures of Fetishism written by L. Kaplan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her latest book, Dr. Louise Kaplan, author of the groundbreaking Female Perversions , explores the fetishism strategy, a psychological defense that aims to tame, subdue, and if necessary, murder human vitalities. Through an exploration of such cultural phenomena as footbinding, reality television, and the construction of robots, Kaplan demonstrates how, in a technology-driven world, an understanding of the fetishism strategy can help to preserve the human dialogue that is the basis of all human relationships. Kaplan writes from the heart as well as from the intellect.

Author : Ray Broadus Browne
Publisher : Popular Press
ISBN 13 : 9780879721916
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Objects of Special Devotion written by Ray Broadus Browne and published by Popular Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book demonstrates the importance of the study of fetishes and fetishism in the study of popular culture. Some of the essays cover rather "conventional" manifestations in the world today; others demonstrate the fetishistic qualities of some unusual items. But all illustrate without any doubt that, like the icon, the ritual, and many other items in society, fetishes, fetishism and fetishists must be studied and understood before we can begin to understand the complexity of present-day society.

Author : Amanda Fernbach
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fantasies of Fetishism written by Amanda Fernbach and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work argues that the orthodox interpretation of classical fetishism is not and never has been up to the task of explaining all cultural fetishisms. It identifies several different forms of fetishism and accounts for its sometimes radical edge.

Author : Jon Stratton
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252069512
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Desirable Body written by Jon Stratton and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the historical and philosophical links between commodity culture and cultural fetishism.

Author : Peter Melville Logan
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791477282
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Victorian Fetishism written by Peter Melville Logan and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2008-12-18 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Victorian Fetishism argues that fetishism was central to the development of cultural theory in the nineteenth century. From 1850 to 1900, when theories of social evolution reached their peak, European intellectuals identified all "primitive" cultures with "Primitive Fetishism," a psychological form of self-projection in which people believe everything in the external world—thunderstorms, trees, stones—is alive. Placing themselves at the opposite extreme of cultural evolution, the Victorians defined culture not by describing what culture was but by describing what it was not, and what it was not was fetishism. In analyses of major works by Matthew Arnold, George Eliot, and Edward B. Tylor, Peter Melville Logan demonstrates the paradoxical role of fetishism in Victorian cultural theory, namely, how Victorian writers projected their own assumptions about fetishism onto the realm of historical fact, thereby "fetishizing" fetishism. The book concludes by examining how fetishism became a sexual perversion as well as its place within current cultural theory.

Author : Andrew R. Jones
Publisher : Cognella Academic Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781934269909
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fads, Fetishes, and Fun written by Andrew R. Jones and published by Cognella Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular culture is a major influence within society, as indicated by the focus on celebrities and entertainment within our media system and the election of pop culture entertainers to political office. While attempting to address pop culture in all its forms and influences on society is impossible to do in a single text, "Fads, Fetishes, and Fun" examines a number of facets of popular culture from a variety of sociological perspectives. Readers are introduced to issues of commodity fetishism, identity and branding, representation of race and gender, manipulation of consciousness, the connections between mass media and pop culture, and the concept of leisure as it is understood within pop culture. Within each of these areas, Jones presents a variety of authors who give insight into the all-pervasive nature of popular culture, its dynamic qualities, and its social impacts. "Fads, Fetishes, and Fun" provides a foundation for individuals interested in learning about pop culture from a sociological point of view. Andrew R. Jones, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at California State University, Fresno and attained his doctorate in sociology at the University of Oregon. He also holds degrees in philosophy and political science, and in addition to his academic career, has worked in the fields of journalism, sales, and construction.

Author : Emily S. Apter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fetishism as Cultural Discourse written by Emily S. Apter and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : J. Lorand Matory
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 1478002433
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fetish Revisited written by J. Lorand Matory and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-26 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 theories of Marx and Freud. Drawing on thirty-six years of fieldwork in Africa, Europe, and the Americas, Matory casts an Afro-Atlantic eye on European theory to show how Marx’s and Freud’s conceptions of the fetish both illuminate and misrepresent Africa’s human-made gods. Through this analysis, the priests, practices, and spirited things of four major Afro-Atlantic religions simultaneously call attention to the culture-specific, materially conditioned, physically embodied, and indeed fetishistic nature of Marx’s and Freud’s theories themselves. Challenging long-held assumptions about the nature of gods and theories, Matory offers a novel perspective on the social roots of these tandem African and European understandings of collective action, while illuminating the relationship of European social theory to the racism suffered by Africans and assimilated Jews alike.