Corpse Magic
University of Chicago Press (Verlag)
978-0-226-83741-3 (ISBN)
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Corpse Magic is a response to the ubiquity of violence across the world. In this bracing, new work, the influential anthropologist Michael Taussig puts state-sanctioned violence in Colombia related to gangs, guerrilla warfare, and police action in conversation with violence in the United States, especially mass shootings and the killing of Black Americans by the police. In both contexts, Taussig examines the effects of violence on its victims, its perpetrators, and those who witness and relive it through media footage.
Taussig analyzes the haunting idea that the act of killing “infects” the killer and spreads outward, connecting it to a belief in Colombia (and elsewhere) that the souls of the slain possess those of their slayers and that magic must be used on corpses to circumvent this process. Drawing from literature, religion, philosophy, and anthropology, Taussig examines violence as a form of contagion that inhabits the killer and the killed alike. In this powerful and imaginative work, he asks what kind of power the dead continue to have; what kind of magic can enact vengeance; and what, if anything, can stop seemingly endless cycles of violence.
Michael Taussig is emeritus professor of anthropology at Columbia University. He is the author of several books, including And the Garden Is You and Mastery of Non-Mastery in the Age of the Meltdown, both published by the University of Chicago Press.
List of Illustrations
Method in the Madness and Vice Versa
The Living and the Dead
1. Thickening
2. Hollowing
3. Some Anthropology of Slaying
The Break-In
4. The Break-In
5. Fetishistic Fastidiousness
6. Who Does the Killing?
7. Realignment of Landscape
8. God Spots and the No-Go Zones
9. From Corpse Magic to Corpse Montage
Hence the Problem Facing the Writer
10. How to Kill a Corpse
11. Reenchantment
12. Corpse and Temple
13. The Funeral March
14. Disappearance of the Death Watch
15. State Execution
16. Vengeance and Repentance
Preposterous Equations
17. A Jesuit Seminar Room in Bogotá
18. Gun Fetishism
19. Statistical Legerdemain
20. Auto-Mobilized Death-Space
21. Killing Animals versus Killing Humans
22. The Taboo on Portraying Killing
23. Nuer-Effect: Present or Absent or Both?
Notes
Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 28.3.2025 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 36 halftones |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 454 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-226-83741-6 / 0226837416 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-226-83741-3 / 9780226837413 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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