The Magic of the State
1st Edition
Published on 21. February 1997
Book
Hardback
216 pages
978-0-415-91790-2 (ISBN)
Description
Set in the enchanted mountain of a spirit-queen presiding over an unnamed, postcolonial country, this ethnographic work of ficto-criticism recreates in written form the shrines by which the dead--notably the fetishized forms of Europe's Others, Indians and Blacks--generate the magical powers of the modern state.
Reviews / Votes
"Taussig offer[s] much of value for us to think about." -- Religious Studies Review"The clear allusions to the South American local of Taussig's fieldwork and the spooky accompanying photographs and drawings give the whole an errie verisimilitude. He seems to be saying, "You think this is fantasy, but it is and is not." Taussig's style of truthtelling roams in the fantasists privileged territory." -- American Journal of Sociology
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
473 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-415-91790-2 (9780415917902)
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The Magic of the State
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Person
Michael Taussig teaches in the Anthropology Department at Columbia University. He is the author, most recently, of The Nervous System and Mimesis and Alterity, both published by Routledge.
Content
Part 1 The Spirit Queen's Court; Chapter 1 The Spirit Queen; Chapter 2 The Mountain; Chapter 3 The Shrines; Chapter 4 Waiting for Ofelia; Chapter 5 Billy the Kid and the Break-Through Economy; Chapter 6 Holy Torpor; Chapter 7 Mimesis Unto Death; Chapter 8 Spiritual Treachery; Part 2 The liberator's Court; Chapter 9 The Infinite Melancholy; Chapter 10 Mucoid Ignominy State-Making as Spirit Possession; Chapter 11 Kitsch is Where Fear Locks with the Mute Absurd; Chapter 12 The Accursed Share; Chapter 13 Money and Spirit Possession in Karl Marx; Chapter 14 Art Adrift in the Passing Crowd Floating Wave-Like on a Freeway; Chapter 15 Faith in Marble; Part 3 The Theater of Divine Justice; Chapter 16 Adventures in Musculature Taximetry and Dada Cinema; Chapter 17 Stealing the Sword; Chapter 18 Pilgrimage as Method;