The Magic of the State
The Magic of the State By Michael Taussig
1997 | 216 Pages | ISBN: 0415917905 | PDF | 10 MB
1997 | 216 Pages | ISBN: 0415917905 | PDF | 10 MB
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.