The magic of the state
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Word Count
51,500 words, Guess
Page Count
206 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL976353M
- ISBN-100415917905
- OCLC Control Number861692899
- OCLC Control Number34514815
- OCLC Control Numbermagicstate00taus
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- Library of Congress Control Number96013469
- Goodreads887864
- LibraryThing7257596
Classifications
- DDC320.98
- LCCJL1866 .T38 1997
Description
Enter an ethnographically surreal work located in a fictive Latin American country: The Magic of the State focuses on the theater of spirit possession at a Spirit Queen's enchanted mountain where the dead - Blacks and Indians, Europe's fetishized others - pass into the bodies of the living, creating a circulation of ecstatic bodily power. Employing Bataille's concept of the sacred, Taussig draws on his extensive fieldwork to create his own theater of spirit possession. He then traces the circulation of power, along with its dada-like transformations between spirit and matter, everywhere - through popular shrines, official monuments and slogans, money, the police, automobiles, taxis, the freeway system, and the stealing of the sword of state.
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