The Magic of the State by Michael Taussig

The Magic of the State

Michael Taussig

206 pages first pub 1996 (editions)

nonfiction sociology challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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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, In...

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