What Color Is the Sacred?

by Michael Taussig

Book Overview

Over the past thirty years, visionary anthropologist Michael Taussig has crafted a highly distinctive body of work. Playful, enthralling, and whip-smart, his writing makes ingenious connections between ideas, thinkers, and things. An extended meditation on the mysteries of color and the fascination they provoke, What Color Is the Sacred? is the next step on Taussig's remarkable intellectual path.

Following his interest in magic and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226790061
• ISBN13: 9780226790060
• Release Date: May 2009
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.8"