FETISHISM AND HAU

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Research in Economic Anthropology

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Title:	FETISHISM AND HAU
Author(s):	Elizabeth Emma Ferry
Volume:	22 Editor(s): Norbert Dannhaeuser and Cynthia Werner ISBN: 978-0-76231-071-5 eISBN: 978-1-84950-249-8
Citation:	Elizabeth Emma Ferry (2003), FETISHISM AND HAU, in Norbert Dannhaeuser and Cynthia Werner (ed.) Anthropological Perspectives on Economic Development and Integration (Research in Economic Anthropology, Volume 22), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, pp.261-281
DOI:	10.1016/S0190-1281(03)22009-6 (Permanent URL)
Publisher:	Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Article type:	Chapter Item
Abstract:	This essay uses Marx’s concept of commodity fetishism and Mauss’s description of the hau as the spirit that connects the giver to the gift to examine notions of production, value, and collectivity in the Santa Fe silver mining Cooperative in Guanajuato, Mexico. This case allows us to look at how fetishism on the one hand, and “hauism” on the other, can work together to form a hybrid form of value wherein silver participates in both commodified and giftlike processes. More broadly, it helps us to examine the relationship between the production of value and the production and legitimation of social groups.