The Magic of the State - Michael Taussig

The Magic of the State

By Michael Taussig

  • Release Date: 2013-10-18
  • Genre: Anthropology

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.

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