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Hagar Cohen's work, Glass, Paper, Beans.
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Sometimes in life we are unwilling participants in the events that go on around us, and that at times can be both a good and a bad thing. In Hagar Cohen's work, Glass, Paper, Beans, she defines the term "feitiço" (199), as a "thing made" (199), a fetish manufactured which people believe possesses spiritual or magical properties. Upon further investigation, another definition for feitiço can be found in the work by José de Vasconcelhos Menezes, Os Marinheiros e Almirantado: elementos para a história da Marinha (Sailors and Admiralty: elements for the History of the Navy). Menezes defines the term feitiço, as "a magic spell or black magic spell cast on subjects by which they are dominated and in which the subjects are either willing or unwilling participants" (1989:133). This term can be used then to describe the McDonaldization of Society, by George Ritzer, when he defines...
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