The Magic of the State
| By: | Michael Taussig |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
| Print ISBN: | 9780415917919 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781135249113 |
| Edition: | 1 |
| Copyright: | 1997 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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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 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.