The Magic of the StatePsychology Press, 1997 - 206 páginas Enter an ethnographically surreal work located in a fictive Latin American country: The Magic of the State focuses on the theater of spirit possession at a Spirit Queen's enchanted mountain where the dead - Blacks and Indians, Europe's fetishized others - pass into the bodies of the living, creating a circulation of ecstatic bodily power. Employing Bataille's concept of the sacred, Taussig draws on his extensive fieldwork to create his own theater of spirit possession. He then traces the circulation of power, along with its dada-like transformations between spirit and matter, everywhere - through popular shrines, official monuments and slogans, money, the police, automobiles, taxis, the freeway system, and the stealing of the sword of state. |
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accursed share anti-colonial wars Arch of Triumph asked beautiful become possessed body Bolívar Cacique candles capital Captain Mission Carabobo Caracas cigar circulation concrete corpse Costaguanians cross crowd dead death defacement enchanted mountain European Elsewhere exchange eyes face Fayad figure force freeway gateway Guaicaipuro Haydée Hobbes human Indian Indio José José Gregorio Hernández Juan Juan Vicente Gómez justice Katy kitsch labor less Liberator Liberator's Lino Valle literal living lucid dream magic mountain marble María Lionza Marx metaphor mimesis modern monument Nation-State national colors night Ofelia official painted pilgrims plastic police portal portrait presence prison Quiballo realm ritual river sacred sacrifice screaming shrine side Simón Bolívar someone sort spirit possession spirit queen spirit queen's mountain statue strange sword tabaco taboo taxi theater thing Three Potencies tion trees Virgilio voice waiting wall whole woman words Zaida Zambrano
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The Political Lives of Dead Bodies: Reburial and Postsocialist Change Katherine Verdery Pré-visualização indisponível - 1999 |