Description
| Product ID: | 9780415917919 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | The Magic of the State |
| Authors: | Author: Michael Taussig |
| Page Count: | 216 |
| Subjects: | Society and culture: general, Society & culture: general, Anthropology, Anthropology |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating The Magic of the State focuses on the theatre 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. 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Routledge |
| Publisher Name: | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 1997-02-04 |