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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...Read More

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  • Product Description

    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.

  • 0415917913
  • 9780415917919
  • Michael Taussig
  • 4 February 1997
  • Routledge
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 216
  • 1
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