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Naomi BenaronRunning the Rift is the most recent winner of the PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction, as awarded by Barbara Kingsolver. It's also an... Continue »
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The Nervous System

by Michael Taussig

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In a series of intriguing essays ranging over terror, State fetishism, shamanic healing in Latin America, homesickness, and the place of the tactile eye in both magic and modernity, anthropologist Michael Taussig puts into representational practice a curious type of engaged writing. Based on a paranoiac vision of social control and its understanding as in a permanent state of emergency leaving no room for contemplation between signs and things, these essays hover between story-telling and high theory and thus create strange new modes of critical discourse. b /b b i The Nervous System /i /b will appeal to writers, scholars, artists, film makers, and readers interested in critical theory, aesthetics, and politics.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-199) and index.
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ISBN:
9780415904452
Author:
Taussig, Michael
Publisher:
Routledge
Author:
Taussig
Location:
New York :
Subject:
Philosophy
Subject:
Sociology - General
Subject:
Sociology
Subject:
Anthropology
Subject:
Psychology, Social.
Subject:
Anthropology -- Philosophy.
Subject:
Anthropologie
Series Volume:
1
Publication Date:
19911131
Binding:
TRADE PAPER
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
220
Dimensions:
8.96x5.97x.48 in. .66 lbs.
Age Level:
18-18
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