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An edition of The magic of the state (1997)

The magic of the state

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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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Routledge
Language
English
Pages
206

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Symbolism in politics, Martyrs, Patriotism, Colonial influence, Political culture, Spirit possession, Allegiance, Staat (politicologie), Possession par les esprits, Symboliek, Allégeance, Mythes politiques, Antropologia, Política, Politische Kultur, Influence coloniale, Politique culturelle, Patriotisme, Symbolisme en politique, 73.72 politics and government (ethnology), Culture politique, Spiritisme, Vaderlandsliefde, South america, POLITICAL SCIENCE, Essays, Government, General, National, Reference

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South America
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1997, Routledge
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-206) and ind

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Dewey Decimal Class
320.98
Library of Congress
JL1866 .T38 1997, JL1866.T38 1997, JL1866 .T38 1997eb

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206 p. :
Number of pages
206

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OL976353M
Internet Archive
magicstate00taus
ISBN 10
0415917905, 0415917913
LCCN
96013469
OCLC/WorldCat
861692899, 34514815
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7257596
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887864
299688

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