1. The Devil And Commodity Fetishism In South America
... for interpretation of these societies is unashamedly Marxist. His aim is to interpret the effects of the disruption these societies experienced from what he calls, the capitalist exploitation of market based oppression, dating from the Spanish conquest to the present day. He tries to achieve this by analysing the subsequent changes in their folk beliefs. Comparing pre-conquest (use value market) beliefs ... from the commodities they produced and the modes of production for them, courtesy of the Spanish. Before this the peasants had enjoyed a reciprocal exchange relationship with the "spi...
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