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Black Magic, White Magic & the Theory of Magic
The Devil and Commodity Fetishism in South America
- First published1980
- TraditionBlack & White Magic
- Shelf83 books
A classic of economic anthropology examining beliefs among Colombian plantation workers and Bolivian tin miners that wages could be increased through pacts with the devil, at the cost of barren money and early death. Taussig reads these beliefs as a moral critique of capitalist wage labour.
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