The corn wolf
"Collecting a decade of work from iconic anthropologist and writer Michael Taussig, The Corn Wolf pinpoints a moment of intellectual development for the master stylist, exemplifying the "nervous system" approach to writing and truth that has characterized his trajectory. Pressured by the permanent state of emergency that imbues our times, this approach marries storytelliing with theory, thickening spiraling analysis with ethnography and putting the study of so-called primitive societies back on…
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- Full title :The corn wolf / Michael Taussig.
Summary
"Collecting a decade of work from iconic anthropologist and writer Michael Taussig, The Corn Wolf pinpoints a moment of intellectual development for the master stylist, exemplifying the "nervous system" approach to writing and truth that has characterized his trajectory. Pressured by the permanent state of emergency that imbues our times, this approach marries storytelliing with theory, thickening spiraling analysis with ethnography and putting the study of so-called primitive societies back on the anthropological agenda as a way of better understanding the sacred in every day life."
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- Publication Date:©2015
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):University of Chicago Press
- Place of Publication:Chicago
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2015
Notes
Includes index.
The Physical Object
- Description:200 pages ; : 24 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780226310718, 022631071X, 9780226310855, 022631085X
- oclc:ocn907147520
- LC Classification:GN33
- Dewey Decimal:301.01
Table of Contents
The corn wolf : writing apotropaic texts -- Animism and the philosophy of everyday life -- The stories things tell and why they tell them -- Humming -- Excelente zona social -- I'm so angry I made a sign -- Weeks in Palestine : my first visit -- A go slow manifesto -- Iconoclasm dictionary -- The obscene in everyday life -- Syllable and sound -- Don Miguel.
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