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Michael Taussig, figure majeure quoique controversée de l'anthropologie anglo-saxonne, s'attache à mettre en évidence la fonction heuristique des croquis et dessins réalisés par l'ethnographe dans ses carnets de notes. Si ce texte personnel apporte une contribution précieuse à la réflexion sur l'enquête de terrain et la manière dont les savoirs s'y agencent, sa portée dépasse largement le cadre de l'ethnographie. Taussig y déploie en effet une réflexion pénétrante sur le pouvoir des images à ressaisir la réalité et à capter ce qui semble résister à la verbalisation. En retour, l'écriture si singulière de l'auteur porte, par les nombreuses références littéraires qui la parsèment et son style même, une interrogation tout aussi profonde sur le rapport du langage à la vérité et sur la dimension fictionnelle inhérente à tout discours, fût-il scientifique.

Taussig, Michael --- Anthropology --- Anthropological illustration --- Fieldwork --- Methodology --- Anthropology - Fieldwork --- Anthropology - Methodology --- Anthropologie --- Ethnologie --- Carnet de voyage

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“It is the contemporary elixir from which all manner of being emerges, the metamorphic sublime, an alchemist’s dream.” So begins Palma Africana, the latest attempt by anthropologist Michael Taussig to make sense of the contemporary moment. But to what elixir does he refer? Palm oil. Saturating everything from potato chips to nail polish, palm oil has made its way into half of the packaged goods in our supermarkets. By 2020, world production will be double what it was in 2000. In Colombia, palm oil plantations are covering over one-time cornucopias of animal, bird, and plant life. Over time, they threaten indigenous livelihoods and give rise to abusive labor conditions and major human rights violations. The list of entwined horrors—climatic, biological, social—is long. But Taussig takes no comfort in our usual labels: “habitat loss,” “human rights abuses,” “climate change.” The shock of these words has passed; nowadays it is all a blur. Hence, Taussig’s keen attention to words and writing throughout this work. He takes cues from precursors’ ruminations: Roland Barthes’s suggestion that trees form an alphabet in which the palm tree is the loveliest; William Burroughs’s retort to critics that for him words are alive like animals and don’t like to be kept in pages—cut them and the words are let free. Steeped in a lifetime of philosophical and ethnographic exploration, Palma Africana undercuts the banality of the destruction taking place all around us and offers a penetrating vision of the global condition. Richly illustrated and written with experimental verve, this book is Taussig’s Tristes Tropiques for the twenty-first century.

Plantations --- Ethnology --- Palm oil industry --- Oil palm --- Environmental aspects --- Social aspects --- Economic aspects --- Taussig, Michael T. --- Colombia --- Environmental conditions. --- Social conditions. --- Colombia. --- Taussig. --- anthropology. --- deforestation. --- ethnography. --- habitat. --- palm oil. --- plantations.

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"A Space on the Side of the Road vividly evokes an 'other' America that survives precariously among the ruins of the West Virginia coal camps and 'hollers'....[It] uses both language and photographs to help readers encounter a fragmented and betrayed community, one 'occupied' by schoolteachers, doctors, social workers, and other professionals representing an 'official' America." -- Back cover.

Coal miners --- Ethnology --- Folklore --- West Virginia --- Rural conditions. --- Social life and customs. --- Rural conditions --- Social life and customs --- Kolgruvearbetare. --- Förenta staterna --- West Virginia. --- Agee, James. --- Barthes, Roland. --- Halloween. --- Jakobson, Roman. --- Kennedy, John R. --- Langer, Susanne. --- Luddites. --- Propp, Vladimir. --- Ricoeur, Paul. --- Rosaldo, Renato. --- Said, Edward. --- Stocking, George. --- Taussig, Michael. --- White, Hayden. --- Williams, Raymond. --- back talk. --- ethnopoetics. --- exotopy. --- fate. --- ideals. --- mythic, the. --- naming. --- nervous system. --- quilting. --- ruin. --- signs. --- sociality. --- storytelling. --- unforgetting. --- world got down.

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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.

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