The Magic of the State

By Michael Taussig

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415917913
• ISBN13: 9780415917919
• Release Date: June 1997
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"