William Pietz
William Pietz (born 1951) is an intellectual historian and political activist. His account of the colonial origins of the concept of fetishism has been characterized as "brilliant"[1] and "fundamental".[2]
Life
Pietz completed his PhD at the University of California at Santa Cruz in 1988.[3] He has taught at Pitzer College, the University of California at Santa Cruz and Georgetown University.[4]
Works
- 'The problem of the fetish I', Res No. 9 (1985), pp. 5-17
- 'The problem of the fetish II: The origin of the fetish', Res No. 13 (1987), p. 23-45
- 'The problem of the fetish. IIIa, Bosman's Guinea and the enlightenment theory of fetishism', Res No. 16 (1988), pp.105-123
- 'Capitalism and Perversion: Reflections on the Fetishism of Excess in the 1980s', positions 3:2 (Fall 1995), pp.537-565
- (ed. with Emily Apter) Fetishism as cultural discourse. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1993.
- 'Fetishims and materialism: the limits of theory in Marx'. In Pietz and Apter, Fetishism as cultural discourse, 1993, pp. 119-151
- 'Fetish', in Robert S. Nelson and Richard Schiff, eds., Critical Terms for Art History, Chicago, 1996
- 'Death of the deodand: accursed objects and the money value of human life', Res: Anthropology and aesthetics 31 (1997, pp.97-108
- 'The fetish of civilization: sacrificial blood and monetary debt'. In Peter Pels & Oscar Salemink (eds.) Colonial Subjects: Essays on the Practical History of Anthropology, University of Michigan Press, 1999
- Le fétiche: généalogie d'un problème. Paris: Kargo & L'éclat, 2005
References
- ↑ Paul Arnett; William Arnett (2001). Souls Grown Deep: Once that river starts to flow. Tinwood Books. p. 469. ISBN 978-0-9653766-3-1.
- ↑ Peter Melville Logan (2008). Victorian Fetishism: Intellectuals and Primitives. SUNY Press. p. 145. ISBN 978-0-7914-7728-1.
- ↑ William Pietz, 'The origin of fetishism : a contribution to the history of theory'. Ph.D. thesis, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1988.
- ↑ Robert S. Nelson; Richard Shiff (2010). Critical Terms for Art History, Second Edition. University of Chicago Press. p. 490. ISBN 978-0-226-57169-0.
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