The Magic of the State

1. Auflage 1997
ISBN: 978-0-415-91790-2
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 216 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 473 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Taussig, Michael

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophische Anthropologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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;

Über Autor(innen)

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.