Symbolic technologies: Machines and the Marxian notion of fetishism

Anthropological Theory

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 473-496

  Hornborg, Alf ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Economic anthropology; Fetishism; Material culture; Semiotics; Technology; Unequal exchange

Indexed keywords

EID: 33644814039     PISSN: 14634996     EISSN: 17412641     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/14634990122228854     Document Type: Article

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