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In this book, a make-believe cocaine museum becomes a vantage point from which to assess the lives of Afro-Colombian gold miners drawn into the dangerous world of cocaine production in the rain forest of Colombia's Pacific Coast. Although modeled on the famous Gold Museum in Colombia's central bank, the Banco de la República, Taussig's museum is also a parody aimed at the museum's failure to acknowledge the African slaves who mined the country's wealth for almost four hundred years. Combining natural history with political history in a filmic, montage style, Taussig deploys the show-and-tell modality of a museum to engage with the inner life of heat, rain, stone, and swamp, no less than with the life of gold and cocaine. This effort to find a poetry of words becoming things is brought to a head by the explosive qualities of those sublime fetishes of evil beauty, gold and cocaine. At its core, Taussig's museum is about the lure of forbidden things, charged substances that transgress moral codes, the distinctions we use to make sense of the world, and above all the conventional way we write stories.
gold mines --- economics --- drugs --- Economics --- Colombia --- Cocaine industry --- Drug traffic --- Gold mines and mining --- Indians of South America --- Indians, Treatment of --- Slavery --- Economic conditions. --- Social conditions. --- History. --- Santa María (Cauca, Colombia) --- Drug dealing --- Drug production, Illicit --- Drug smuggling --- Drug trade, Illicit --- Drug trafficking --- Drugs --- Illicit drug production --- Illicit drug trade --- Narcotic trade --- Narcotic traffic --- Narcotic trafficking --- Smuggling of drugs --- Smuggling of narcotics --- Traffic, Drug --- Trafficking in drugs --- Trafficking in narcotics --- Gold discoveries --- Gold extraction (Mining) --- Gold fields --- Gold mining --- Gold rush --- Gold rushes --- Goldfields --- Goldmining --- Goldrush --- Goldrushes --- Sites, Gold mining --- Abolition of slavery --- Antislavery --- Enslavement --- Mui tsai --- Ownership of slaves --- Servitude --- Slave keeping --- Slave system --- Slaveholding --- Thralldom --- American aborigines --- American Indians --- Indigenous peoples --- Prices and sale --- Ethnology --- Drug abuse and crime --- Narco-terrorism --- Mines and mineral resources --- Crimes against humanity --- Serfdom --- Slaveholders --- Slaves --- Indians --- Government relations --- Economic conditions --- Social conditions --- History --- Santa María (Cauca, Colombia) --- Taussig, Michael --- Cocaine industry - Colombia - Santa María (Cauca) --- Drug traffic - Colombia - Santa María (Cauca) --- Gold mines and mining - Colombia - Santa María (Cauca) --- Indians of South America - Colombia - Santa María (Cauca) - Economic conditions --- Indians of South America - Colombia - Santa María (Cauca) - Social conditions --- Indians, Treatment of - Colombia - Santa María (Cauca) --- Slavery - Colombia - Santa María (Cauca) - History --- Santa María (Cauca, Colombia) - Economic conditions --- Santa María (Cauca, Colombia) - Social conditions --- gold museum, pacific coast, colombia, miners, cocaine, rain forest, slavery, slaves, labor, colonialism, transgression, forbidden, afro-colombian, banco de la republica, race, racism, exploitation, capitalism, wealth, politics, history, fetish, corruption, indigenous, native, santa maraia, cauca, mines, drug traffic, nonfiction. --- Santa Maria (Cauca, Colombia)
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In September 1940, Walter Benjamin committed suicide in Port Bou on the Spanish-French border when it appeared that he and his travelling partners would be denied passage into Spain in their attempt to escape the Nazis. In 2002, one of anthropology's& and indeed today's& most distinctive writers, Michael Taussig, visited Benjamin's grave in Port Bou. The result is & Walter Benjamin's Grave,& a moving essay about the cemetery, eyewitness accounts of Benjamin's border travails, and the circumstances of his demise. It is the most recent of eight revelatory essays collected in this volume of the same name.& Looking over these essays written over the past decade,& writes Taussig, & I think what they share is a love of muted and defective storytelling as a form of analysis. Strange love indeed; love of the wound, love of the last gasp.& Although thematically these essays run the gamut& covering the monument and graveyard at Port Bou, discussions of peasant poetry in Colombia, a pact with the devil, the peculiarities of a shaman's body, transgression, the disappearance of the sea, New York City cops, and the relationship between flowers and violence& each shares Taussig's highly individual brand of storytelling, one that depends on a deep appreciation of objects and things as a way to retrieve even deeper philosophical and anthropological meanings. Whether he finds himself in Australia, Colombia, Manhattan, or Spain, in the midst of a book or a beach, whether talking to friends or staring at a monument, Taussig makes clear through these marvelous essays that materialist knowledge offers a crucial alternative to the increasingly abstract, globalized, homogenized, and digitized world we inhabit.Pursuing an adventure that is part ethnography, part autobiography, and part cultural criticism refracted through the object that is Walter Benjamin's grave, Taussig, with this collection, provides his own literary memorial to the twentieth century's greatest cultural critic.
Anthropology --- Fieldwork --- Philosophy --- Benjamin, Walter, --- #SBIB:39A2 --- Antropologie: methoden en technieken --- Fieldwork. --- Field work. --- Anthropology - Fieldwork. --- Anthropology -- Fieldwork. --- Social Sciences --- Anthropology - General --- Anthropology - Fieldwork --- Anthropology - Philosophy --- Benjamin, Walter, - 1892-1940
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'I Swear I Saw This' records visionary anthropologist Michael Taussig's reflections on the fieldwork notebooks he kept through 40 years of travels in Colombia.
Anthropology --- Anthropological illustration. --- #SBIB:39A2 --- Illustration, Anthropological --- Scientific illustration --- Fieldwork. --- Methodology. --- Antropologie: methoden en technieken --- Anthropological illustration --- Fieldwork --- Methodology --- Anthropologie --- Illustration anthropologique --- Recherche sur le terrain --- Méthodologie --- Anthropology - Fieldwork --- Anthropology - Methodology
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299.6*8 --- 299.6*8 Godsdiensten van de zwarten in Midden- en Zuid-Amerika. Voodoo --- Godsdiensten van de zwarten in Midden- en Zuid-Amerika. Voodoo --- Economic development --- Plantations --- Superstition --- Tin mines and mining --- #SBIB:39A10 --- #SBIB:39A74 --- Stannaries --- Mines and mineral resources --- Tin industry --- Folk beliefs --- Traditions --- Folklore --- Religion --- Farms --- Development, Economic --- Economic growth --- Growth, Economic --- Economic policy --- Economics --- Statics and dynamics (Social sciences) --- Development economics --- Resource curse --- Social aspects&delete& --- Case studies --- Antropologie: religie, riten, magie, hekserij --- Etnografie: Amerika --- Développement économique --- Etain --- Social aspects --- Case studies. --- Aspect social --- Cas, Etudes de --- Mines et extraction
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In this classic book, Michael Taussig explores the social significance of the devil in the folklore of contemporary plantation workers and miners in South America. Grounding his analysis in Marxist theory, Taussig finds that the fetishization of evil, in the image of the devil, mediates the conflict between precapitalist and capitalist modes of objectifying the human condition. He links traditional narratives of the devil-pact, in which the soul is bartered for illusory or transitory power, with the way in which production in capitalist economies causes workers to become alienated from the com
Economic development --- Plantations --- Tin mines and mining --- Superstition --- Folk beliefs --- Traditions --- Folklore --- Religion --- Stannaries --- Mines and mineral resources --- Tin industry --- Farms --- Development, Economic --- Economic growth --- Growth, Economic --- Economic policy --- Economics --- Statics and dynamics (Social sciences) --- Development economics --- Resource curse --- Social aspects --- E-books --- Fétichisme --- --Plantations --- Moeurs --- --Colombie --- --Amérique du Sud --- --History --- Bolivia. --- Plantations - Latin America - History --- Economic development - Latin America --- Colombie --- Amérique du Sud
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For centuries, humans have excelled at mimicking nature in order to exploit it. Now, with the existential threat of global climate change on the horizon, the ever-provocative Michael Taussig asks what function a newly invigorated mimetic faculty might exert along with such change. Mastery of Non-Mastery in the Age of Meltdown is not solely a reflection on our condition but also a theoretical effort to reckon with the impulses that have fed our relentless ambition for dominance over nature. Taussig seeks to move us away from the manipulation of nature and reorient us to different metaphors and sources of inspiration to develop a new ethical stance toward the world. His ultimate goal is to undo his readers' sense of control and engender what he calls "mastery of non-mastery." This unique book developed out of Taussig's work with peasant agriculture and his artistic practice, which brings performance art together with aspects of ritual. Through immersive meditations on Walter Benjamin, D. H. Lawrence, Emerson, Bataille, and Proust, Taussig grapples with the possibility of collapse and with the responsibility we bear for it.
Human ecology --- Nature and civilization --- Civilization, Modern --- Human ecology in art --- Philosophy --- D. H. Lawrence. --- Georges Bataille. --- Marcel Proust. --- Walter Benjamin. --- climate change. --- collapse. --- metaphor. --- mimicry. --- nature. --- performance art. --- Twenty-first century --- Civilization and nature --- Civilization --- E-books --- Human ecology - Philosophy --- Civilization, Modern - 21st century
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Indians of South America --- Shamanism --- Rubber industry and trade --- Colombia --- Putumayo (Colombia : Intendancy)
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Violence --- Paramilitary forces --- Death squads --- Terrorism
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