口袋里的恶魔:马萨诸塞湾的契约、商品和巫术

IF 0.1 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY Horror Studies Pub Date : 2020-04-01 DOI:10.1386/host_00010_1
I. Green
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1692年的新英格兰是一个与资本主义的宇宙意义斗争的社区,在这个时代,市场开始定义大西洋世界的生活。有约束力的合同、流动资本和商品交换既提供了哲学上的证据,也给一个社会带来了重大的危险,这个社会植根于对契约神圣性的坚定信念,以及对干预物质世界的幽灵力量的现实的信念。因此,在那些可怕的年代席卷马萨诸塞州的血腥巫术危机期间产生的法律文件表达了一种普遍的焦虑,即通过社会关系流通并反映社会关系的商品可能受到诅咒的性质,无形的经济力量对日常生活的道德模糊入侵,被赋予神圣或恶魔庇护的契约的令人信服的经验,以及星座文化的文化融合,通过市场相互关系联系在一起。随着巫术故事作为美国叙事的试金石而牢固地扎根,这些焦虑仍然是大众想象中女巫审判表现的核心。这些小说,戏剧和电影回归到危机时期的法律文件,经济合同和口头表演的集合,将被抹去的商品化,陷入困境的经济社会联系以及文化和种族不安全等争议性问题置于美国民间传说的核心。这种阅读重新集中了原始资料和后来流行的关于女巫危机的描述,围绕着通过合同讲述的故事,围绕着商品和商品交换,这些仍然是马萨诸塞湾砖块式叙事模式的持久特征。它将这些文件视为大西洋市场资本主义作为一种宇宙力量出现的证据,一种通过市场逻辑变得强大的模糊但干预主义的上帝,它认为这种力量继续定义着美国血腥的自我神话。
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Daemons in the pocket: Contract, commodities and witchcraft in Massachusetts Bay
New England in 1692 was a community grappling with the cosmic meaning of capitalism in an age during which the market came to define life in the Atlantic world. Binding contracts, mobile capital and commodity exchange offered both philosophical proof and significant peril for a community rooted in a firm belief in the sacredness of contract covenants and in the reality of spectral forces intervening into the material world. As a result, the legal documents produced during the bloody witchcraft crisis that swept Massachusetts in those terrible years articulate a widespread anxiety about the potentially accursed nature of commodities that travel through and index social connections, the morally ambiguous incursions of invisible economic forces into everyday life, the compelling experience of contracts given divine or diabolical aegis and the cultural syncretism of a constellated culture bound together through market interrelations. As tales of witchcraft have taken root firmly as American narrative touchstones, those anxieties have remained central to representations of the witch trials in popular imagination. The novels, plays and films that return to the crisis’ collection of legal documents, economic contracts and oral performances, position contested issues of obliterative commodification, troubled economic social contact and cultural and racial insecurity at the heart of American folklore. This reading re-centres both primary sources and subsequent popular depictions of the witch crisis around the stories told through contracts and around the commodities and commodity exchanges that remained persistent features of Massachusetts Bay’s imbricated modes of storytelling. It reads these documents as evidence for the emergence of Atlantic market capitalism as a cosmic force, an obscure but interventionist God made powerful through market logic, and it argues that this force continues to define America’s central bloody myth of self.
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