Border Fetishisms Career Lattice from an entirely different angle--the

from an entirely different angle--the effect of the medium rather than the intentions of the journalists

through the work of such celebrated nineteenth-century decadents as Charles Baudelaire

the authors examine the concept of literacy and discuss how its meanings and measurements have been changed by educational research of the last few decades

and 'man-made' problems

Professor Harris explores the issues that arise from the

Border Fetishisms Career Lattice from an entirely different angle--theThe essays in Border Fetishisms explore the cultural, commercial, political and erotic dimensions that distinguish fetish formations in fractured colonial and postcolonial spaces. Spanning such topics as Surinamese conversion to Christianity to shoplifting in Georgian England, to face the fetish, the contributors neither demagicalize the fetish nor normalize the commodity. Instead, they call for the inclusion of material things as fetishes or not