The Magic of the State

Type

Book

Authors

Michael Taussig

ISBN 10

0415917913

ISBN 13

9780415917919

Tags

New Age & Spirituality, Social Sciences, General, Sociology, Caribbean & Latin American, Political Science, 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. - from Amzon

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