The Magic of the State

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.

• Author
• Michael Taussig

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 216

• Publisher
• Routledge

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780415917919

• Genres
• anthropology, sociology, ethnography, theory

• Release date
• 1997