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9780415917902

The Magic of the State

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  • ISBN13:

    9780415917902

  • ISBN10:

    0415917905

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1997-02-21
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Summary

Anthropologist Michael Taussig portrays the postmodern state in terms of spirit possession. This unusual book of ficto-criticism begins with a conversation with the spirit queen as to the nourishment of the state by the dead--notably the spirits of those whose blood was spilled during the European conquest and the anti-colonial Wars of Independence. Taussig describes how through theaters of ecstasy, composed of fragments of the great story that the State, for the perpetuation of its spiritual authority, needs to tell about itself, these spirits are provided a reservoir of magical powers. Developing concepts of the sacred from Bataille, the post-Surreal College of Sociology, Canetti, Marx, Hobbes, and Walter Benjamin, Taussig creates his own whirlwind theater of spirit-possession, utilizing popular shrines, official monuments and slogans, money, the police, the freeway system, automobiles, taxis, the stealing of the sword of the state and, last but not least, through fetishization of Europe's (dead)Others--Native Americans and people of African descent.

Table of Contents

Preface: A Note on Names and Naming ix
PART ONE---THE SPIRIT QUEEN'S COURT
The Spirit Queen
3(14)
The Mountain
17(16)
The Shrines
33(8)
Waiting for Ofelia: The Chief Justice is Possessed by Captain Mission
41(12)
Billy the Kid and the Break-Through Economy
53(10)
Holy Torpor
63(14)
Mimesis Unto Death
77(4)
Spiritual Treachery
81(8)
PART TWO--THE LIBERATOR'S COURT
The Infinite Melancholy
89(10)
Mucoid Ignominy: State-Making as Spirit Possession
99(10)
Kitsch Is Where Fear Locks with the Mute Absurd
109(10)
The Accursed Share
119(10)
Money and Spirit Possession in Karl Marx
129(18)
Art Adrift in the Passing Crowd Floating Wave--Like On the Freeway
147(18)
Faith in Marble
165(16)
PART THREE--THE THEATER OF DIVINE JUSTICE
Adventures in Musculature: Taximetry and Dada Cinema
181(8)
Stealing the Sword
189(8)
Pilgrimage as Method
197(4)
Bibliography 201

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