Fetichism in West Africa
Author: Robert Hamill Nassau
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Published: 1904
Total Pages: 448
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Fetichism in West Africa
Author: Robert Hamill Nassau
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Published: 1904
Total Pages: 440
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKSpiritual Fetichism
Author: Robert Hamill Nassau
Publisher: Vamzzz Publishing
Published: 2016-10-06
Total Pages: 526
ISBN-13: 9789492355188
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDespite a nowadays anachronist and disturbing perspective, the book has remained most valuable for students of the occult, especially those interested in demonology, voodoo, hoodoo and its roots, African magick and religion, witchcraft, the classes of African spirits, and of course the spiritual and magickal use of a fetish.
Fetishism
Author: Anthony Shelton
Publisher: Ben Uri Gallery & Museum
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 140
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKPublished to accompany the South Bank Centre National Touring Exhibition held in 1995.
Magic and Fetishism
Author: Alfred C. Haddon
Publisher: DigiCat
Published: 2022-07-21
Total Pages: 66
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Magic and Fetishism" by Alfred Cort Haddon is text that was initially intended to be educational in nature. A study in anthropology, Haddon shows how magic, mysticism, and fetishism have played an important role throughout history. Though this book may have been written over a century ago, it's still just as insightful now as it was then.
The Fetish Revisited
Author: J. Lorand Matory
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2018-10-04
Total Pages: 404
ISBN-13: 1478002433
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSince 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.
Where Animals Talk: West African Folk Lore Tales
Author: Robert Hamill Nassau
Publisher: Good Press
Published: 2019-12-03
Total Pages: 160
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs the title suggests, this book is a collection of West African folktales. These tales are taken from the three tribes of the region: Mpongwe, Benga, and Fang. More than 50 titles can be found inside this book's pages, including the following: 'A Journey for Salt', 'Borrowed Clothes', and 'Tortoise Covers His Ignorance'.
The Negro a Menace to American Civilization
Author: Robert Wilson Shufeldt
Publisher:
Published: 1907
Total Pages: 312
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Negro a Menace to American Civilization by Robert Wilson Shufeldt, first published in 1907, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, which has been scanned and cleaned by state-of-the-art publishing tools for better readability and enhanced appreciation. Restoration Editors' mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life. Some smudges, annotations or unclear text may still exist, due to permanent damage to the original work. We believe the literary significance of the text justifies offering this reproduction, allowing a new generation to appreciate it.
The Spiritual in the Secular
Author: Patrick Harries
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Published: 2012-07-20
Total Pages: 358
ISBN-13: 0802866344
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDavid Livingstone's visit to Cambridge in 1857 was seen as much as a scientific event as a religious one. But he was by no means alone among missionaries in integrating mission with science and other fields of research. Rather, many missionaries were remarkable, pioneering polymaths. This collection of essays explores the ways in which late-nineteenth- and twentieth-century missionaries to Africa contributed to various academic disciplines, such as linguistics, ethnography, social anthropology, zoology, medicine, and many more. This volume includes an introductory chapter by the editors and eleven chapters that analyze missionary research and its impact on knowledge about African contexts. Several themes emerge, including many missionaries' positive views of indigenous discourses and the complicated relationship between missionaries and professional anthropologists. Contributors: John Cinnamon Erika Eichholzer Natasha Erlank Deborah Gaitskell Patrick Harries Walima T. Kalusa John Manton David Maxwell John Stuart Dmitri van den Bersselaar Honor Vinck
The Returns of Fetishism
Author: Charles de Brosses
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2017-07-26
Total Pages: 442
ISBN-13: 022646489X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor more than 250 years, Charles de Brosses’s term “fetishism” has exerted great influence over our most ambitious thinkers. Used as an alternative to “magic,” but nonetheless expressing the material force of magical thought, de Brosses’s term has proved indispensable to thinkers as diverse as Kant, Hegel, Marx, Freud, Lacan, Baudrillard, and Derrida. With this book, Daniel H. Leonard offers the first fully annotated English translation of the text that started it all, On the Worship of Fetish Gods, and Rosalind C. Morris offers incisive commentary that helps modern readers better understand it and its legacy. The product of de Brosses’s autodidactic curiosity and idiosyncratic theories of language, On the Worship of Fetish Gods is an enigmatic text that is often difficult for contemporary audiences to assess. In a thorough introduction to the text, Leonard situates de Brosses’s work within the cultural and intellectual milieu of its time. Then, Morris traces the concept of fetishism through its extraordinary permutations as it was picked up and transformed by the fields of philosophy, comparative religion, political economy, psychoanalysis, and anthropology. Ultimately, she breaks new ground, moving into and beyond recent studies by thinkers such as William Pietz, Hartmut Böhme, and Alfonso Iacono through illuminating new discussions on topics ranging from translation issues to Africanity and the new materialisms.
