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The History and Theory of Fetishism [electronic resource] / by Alfonso Maurizio Iacono.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: Publisher: New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016Description: IX, 202 p. online resourceISBN:
  • 9781137541154 (ebook: PDF)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 320.01 23
Online resources: Summary: The History and Theory of Fetishism, the expanded version of Iacono's enduring classic Teorie del feticismo and available for the first time in English, 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. Iacono examines the moment when the Western observer turned his colonizing and evangelizing gaze to continents such as Africa and the Americas, while attempting to simultaneously destabilize and look at his own world critically.
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The History and Theory of Fetishism, the expanded version of Iacono's enduring classic Teorie del feticismo and available for the first time in English, 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. Iacono examines the moment when the Western observer turned his colonizing and evangelizing gaze to continents such as Africa and the Americas, while attempting to simultaneously destabilize and look at his own world critically.

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