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The Magic of the State
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Pages: 220
Authors: Michael T. Taussig
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 1997 - Publisher: Psychology Press

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The Magic of the State
Language: en
Pages: 216
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-10-18 - Publisher: Routledge

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Set in the enchanted mountain of a spirit-queen presiding over an unnamed, postcolonial country, this ethnographic work of ficto-criticism recreates in written
The Magical State
Language: en
Pages: 480
Authors: Fernando Coronil
Categories: Business & Economics
Type: BOOK - Published: 1997-11-10 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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In 1935, after the death of dictator General Juan Vicente Gómez, Venezuela consolidated its position as the world's major oil exporter and began to establish w
Language and Revolutionary Magic in the Orinoco Delta
Language: en
Pages: 217
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Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-10-15 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

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Winner of the 2021 New Voices Book Award by the Society for Linguistic Anthropology Exploring the ways in which the development of linguistic practices helped e
Shamanism, Colonialism, and the Wild Man
Language: en
Pages: 538
Authors: Michael Taussig
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-06-20 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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Working with the image of the Indian shaman as Wild Man, Taussig reveals not the magic of the shaman but that of the politicizing fictions creating the effect o