@inbook{10.5149/9780807898413_taussig.13,
 ISBN = {9780807871331},
 URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5149/9780807898413_taussig.13},
 abstract = {The mining rituals and the sculptures of the devil are forms of art. If we accept Marcuse’s suggestion that art fights the amnesia of reification by making the petrified world speak and sing against a repressive reality, then we begin to sense how and why the miners’ art is informed by their history extending back through peasant life to preconquest times. As art, these rites and statues dramatize and mold the meaning of the present in the hopes for liberation from it. Through ritual the spirits of nature are aligned with man and come to his aid. Proletarianization of peasants},
 author = {Michael T. Taussig},
 booktitle = {The Devil and Commodity Fetishism in South America},
 pages = {155--168},
 publisher = {University of North Carolina Press},
 title = {The Worship of Nature},
 year = {1980}
}