The Magic of the State

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By Michael Taussig

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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.
The Magic of the State