Volume 27, Number 20 · December 18, 1980
Pact with the Devil
By E.J. Hobsbawm
The Devil and Commodity Fetishism in South America
by Michael T. Taussig
University of North Carolina Press, 264 pp., $19.50
Two beliefs among the black peasants and laborers of Puerto Tejada in Colombia form the starting point of Michael Taussig's extremely original book: the devil contract and the baptized banknote.
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