I wonder whether this is the same Silivia who was Hayden White's partner in the early seventies. I might have gotten to know her at UCLA in White's seminar on 20th century intellectual history.
j ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sean Andrews" <cultstud76 at gmail.com> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2010 7:06:26 AM Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] modern witchcraft
Very interesting. Sitting next to me--hopefully to be read in spurts over the next year or so, during my kid's nap and in between classes--is Silvia Federici's /Caliban and The Witch/. I haven't read it, but her thesis is basically that the accusation of witchcraft is usually in response to people resisting primitive accumulation. Not sure how these kids fit into it, but I believe she looks at modern day Africa as well as colonial US and medieval Europe. Here's a short review:
http://www.lipmagazine.org/articles/revicontent_caliban.htm
[in perusing the review, looks like it is just western europe in early modern era; connection to Africa was made in Raj Patel's book "value of nothing" re: ending the commons then and now. Again, no mention of kids, but...]
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