@inbook{10.5149/9780807898413_taussig.18,
 ISBN = {9780807871331},
 URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5149/9780807898413_taussig.18},
 abstract = {Let us briefly review the salient contrasts between the magic of peasant production and that of mining. Peasants own their means of production, miners do not. Peasants control the organization of work; miners are in constant conflict with managers over job control and wage levels. Peasants combine production for subsistence with some sale of produce; miners are totally dependent on the labor market: the buying and selling of their labor power. Peasant rites associated with production and the means of production are sacrificial exchanges to the mountain spirits. These exchanges secure the right to use the land and ensure its},
 author = {Michael T. Taussig},
 booktitle = {The Devil and Commodity Fetishism in South America},
 pages = {223--228},
 publisher = {University of North Carolina Press},
 title = {Mining Magic: The Mediation of Commodity Fetishism},
 year = {1980}
}