Name: Corpse Magic (en Inglés)
SKU: 69336097
Price: 142834.00 COP
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Author: Michael Taussig
ISBN: 9780226837406

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Libro Físico

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The University of Chicago Press

Autor

Michael Taussig

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Inglés

Encuadernación

Ebook

ISBN13

9780226837406

Corpse Magic (en Inglés)

Michael Taussig (Autor) · The University of Chicago Press · Ebook

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Reseña del libro "Corpse Magic (en Inglés)"

Corpse Magic examines beliefs about vengeance the slain magically enact on their killers, focusing on lethal violence in Colombia and the United States. Corpse Magic is a response to the global ubiquity of violence. In this bracing new work, the influential anthropologist Michael Taussig puts killings in Colombia, by gangs and guerrillas, police and the military, and agents of agribusiness, in conversation with mass shootings and police killings, disproportionately of Black people, in the United States. In both contexts, he examines the effects of violent killing on its victims, its perpetrators, and those who witness and relive it through media footage. nDrawing from literature, religion, philosophy, and anthropology, Taussig traces the idea that the act of killing 'infects' the killer and spreads outward, then connects this concept of contagion to beliefs in Colombia and elsewhere that the souls of the slain possess those of their slayers and that magic can be used to empower or thwart corpses as agents of vengeance. In this powerful and imaginative work, Taussig asks what kind of power the dead continue to have; what kinds of magic can manage that power; and what, if anything, can stop seemingly endless cycles of violence.