An episode under the former podcast name of Sh** Gets Weird.


This episode explores the ideas of Michael Taussig, an anthropologist who wrote The Devil and Commodity Fetishism, a classic in the field of Marxist anthropology. We will discuss how indigenous Andean belief systems adapted and resisted those imposed by Catholic colonizers, and its relevance to political struggle in Bolivia today.

Bonus: Why the Devil of the Mines always has a boner.

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