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Title: The Magic of the State by Michael Taussig, Michael T. Taussag ISBN: 0-415-91791-3 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: November, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A fine example of Taussig's
Comment: Taussig, as his career has progressed, has embraced more and more Nietzsche's dictum that cultural representation must - absolutely must - be inherently radical. The Magic of the State perhaps exemplifies this best - being of a different conceptual order than just about anything out there in large-press anthropology. However unorthodox Shamanism, Colonialism, and the Wild Man or Defacement may have been with their incorporation of the more literary voices in ethnography and cultural studies, The Magic of the State slips between orthodox and heterodox altogether - as it simply abandons anything resembling an enthographic model, and instead takes the form of a fictional narrative that might be called anthropological literature or, more accurately, surrealist anthropology...
If you can suspend your standard expectations of what state-theory should be all about, you will find Taussig's book extremely rewarding and even humorous in spots. If you remove the historical, traditional, and methodical bases of Benedict Anderson's Imagined Communities, and inject a generous helping of hallucinatory imagery, dada-esque playfulness, and representational experimentation (and maybe some steriods), you MIGHT come within several kilometers of describing Taussig's masterful book. But in this case, to describe would be to "write around," and this is certainly a work that should be "written with" and celebrated for the vistas from which it enables us mere mortals to see.
Rating: 5
Summary: The modern state as voodoo ceremony
Comment: Taussig starts with an impressionistic analysis of a Latin American spirit possesion cult and then uses it as a model to explain how the modern state relies on various mysterious incarnations as the basis of its legal system, economics, official history, even its highways. Mixes ethnography, political theory and cultural criticism in an often unsettling but ultimately convincing performance. You WILL believe in ghosts!
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Title: Mimesis and Alterity: A Particular History of the Senses by Michael Taussig ISBN: 0415906873 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: December, 1992 List Price(USD): $28.95 |
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Title: Defacement: Public Secrecy and the Labor of the Negative by Michael T. Taussig ISBN: 0804732000 Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr Pub. Date: November, 1999 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: Devil and Commodity Fetishism in South America by Michael T. Taussig ISBN: 0807841064 Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Pr Pub. Date: March, 1983 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: The Nervous System by Michael Taussig ISBN: 0415904455 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: November, 1991 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: The Modernity of Witchcraft: Politics and the Occult in Postcolonial Africa = Sorcellerie Et Politique En Afrique by Peter Geschiere, Janet Roitman ISBN: 0813917034 Publisher: University of Virginia Press Pub. Date: June, 1997 List Price(USD): $19.50 |
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