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Author:   Peter Pels
Publisher:   Berghahn Books
Imprint:   Berghahn Books
ISBN:  

9781805390145

ISBN 10:   1805390147
Pages:   388
Publication Date:   14 July 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
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Table of Contents

List of Figures Preface Acknowledgments Part I: Introduction Chapter 1. The Auto-Icon, or: What a Secularist Relic Says about Modern Dematerializations Chapter 2. Towards a Methodology of the Concrete Part II: Fetish and the Fear of Matter Chapter 3. The Spirit of Matter: On Fetish, Rarity, Fact and Fancy Chapter 4. The Modern Fear of Matter: Reflections on the Protestantism of Victorian Science Part III: Do Catholics See Things Differently? Chapter 5. Trophy and Wonder, or: Bodies at the Exhibition Chapter 6. Africa Christo! The Materiality of Photographs in Dutch Catholic Mission Propaganda, 1946-1960 Chapter 7. I am Black, but Comely : Mission, Modernity and the Power of Objects in the Afrika Museum, Berg en Dal Chapter 8. Conclusion: The Powers of Miming Africa Part IV: The Time of Things Chapter 9. Things in Time: Commodity Fetishism before Advertising Chapter 10. False Consciousness? The Rise of Advertising In Lieu of a Conclusion: The Future of Things References Index

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I consider this to be a brilliant piece of research creating a highly original intervention in material culture studies. In particular the debates on materiality and matter and the intellectual history of the concept of fetishism and its transformation of meaning in Europe from the 16th century to the present. * Michael Rowlands, University College London [A book] with considerable value. It is a compelling read, that has some important interventions to make concerning the nature of the material within modernity. * Jon Mitchell, University of Sussex

Author Information

Peter Pels is a Professor of Anthropology of Africa at the University of Leiden. He edited the journal Social Anthropology (2003-2007) and advised the Catalhoeyuk excavation project led by Ian Hodder (2005-14). His most recent publication is Museum Temporalities: Time, History and the Future of the Ethnographic Museum (Routledge, 2023) which is co-edited with Wayne Modest.

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