Publication

1992 - Routledge, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

51,750 words, Guess

Page Count

207 pages

Identifiers

and 3 more
  • Library of Congress Control Number91032292
  • LibraryThing285327
  • Goodreads146406

Classifications

  • DDC301/.01
  • LCCGN345 .T38 1991

Description

"In a series of intriguing essays ranging over terror, State fetishism, shamanic healing in Latin America, homesickness, and the place of the tactile eye in both magic and modernity, anthropologist Michael Taussig puts into representational practice a curious type of engaged writing. Based on a paranoiac vision of social control and its understanding as in a permanent state of emergency leaving no room for contemplation between signs and things, these essays hover between story-telling and high theory and thus create strange new modes of critical discourse. The Nervous System will appeal to writers, scholars, artists, film makers, and readers interested in critical theory, aesthetics, and politics." --Publisher description.

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