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Taussig 1999, trade paperback at the best online prices at ebay. Taussig born 3 april 1940 in sydney is an australian anthropologist and professor. Rearranging knowledge and ignorance in somalia oxford. Taussig born 3 april 1940 in sydney is an australian anthropologist and professor at columbia university. When the human body, a nations flag, money, or a public statue is defaced, a strange surplus of negative energy is likely to be aroused from within the defaced thing itself. He was born in australia in 1940 and later studied medicine at the university of sydney. Your use of the jstor archive indicates your acceptance of. Michael taussig, defacement 3 dont ask, dont tell bill clinton, public law 103160 prohibiting openly gay people from serving in the united states armed forces. Debenport, trevor durbin, michael fischer, emmanuel grimaud, stefan helmreich, rena. If you are the author and have permission from the publisher, we recommend that you archive it. This account of sacrilege in relation to secrecy is a study of taboo and transgression, and of. Public secrecy and the labor of the negative epub mobi pdf txt. A luz dos conceitos propostos por michael taussig 1999 em defacement.
Nov 01, 1999 defacement by michael taussig, 9780804732000, available at book depository with free delivery worldwide. Public secrecy and the labor of the negative michael. Taussig, defacement public secrecy and the labor of the. It begins with the notion that such activity is attractive in its very repulsion, and that it creates something sacred even in the most secular of societies and circumstances. Public secrecy and the labor of the negative 1999, excerpts. There are secrets that are kept from the public and then there are opublic secretso. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. The anthropologist michael taussig provides a detailed and thoughful narrative on the cultural phenomena of public secrecy and hegels labor of the negative, drawing inspiration from an impressive range of sources both new and old. Pdf religion and the violence of nonviolence michael. It begins with the notion that such activity is attractive in its very repulsion, and. Defacement public secrecy and the labor of the negative. Defacement asks what happens when something precious is despoiled. The animals consciousness has displaced the historical consciousness, just as the historical was displaced by the primeval, which is to say by a dying sea and a mothers green bile torn from a rotting liver.
The sovereign individual and michael taussigs politics of. In a series of intriguing essays ranging over terror, state fetishism, shamanic healing in latin america, homesickness, and the place of the tactile eye in both magic and modernity, anthropologist michael taussig puts into representational practice a curious type of engaged writing. Uncommonly good collectible and rare books from uncommonly good booksellers. Although he has published on medical anthropology, he is best known for his engagement with marxs idea of commodity fetishism, especially in terms of the work of walter benjamin. Taussig brilliantly shows that initiatory secrets and public secrecy often. When something is defaced, such as a human body, a nation, a flag, money, a public statue, or a city, the very repulsiveness of the act arouses a strange surplus nega.
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Michael taussig defacement public secrecy and the labor of the. In specifying the human face as the ideal type for thinking through such violation, this book raises the issue of secrecy as the depth that seems to. Arguing that this sort of knowledge knowing what not to know is the most powerful form of social knowledge, taussig works with ideas and motifs from nietzsche. Taussig s book defacement 1999 is a wideangle examination of the concept of the negative, undertaken through an elaboration of the notion of the public secret. Public secrecy and the labor of the negative epub mobi pdf txt defacement. Public secrecy and the labor of the negative by michael t. Public secrecy and the labor of the negative, 1999, isbn 9780804732000. Defacement by taussig, michael and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. Taussig michael t 1999 defacement public secrecy and the. Lawless land 2003, defacement 1999, mimesis and alterity 1993, the. Anna vitale v l our rimbaud mask small press distribution. His books include the devil and commodity fetishism in south america 1990, shamanism, colonialism, and the wild man 1987, the nervous system 1992. Defacement michael taussig bok 9780804731997 bokus.
Public secrecy and the labor of the negative illustrated by taussig, michael isbn. One of the most notorious examples of defacement is illustrated in guy debords graffito, ne travaillez jamais, scrawled on a public embankment in paris in 1963. Public secrecy and the labor of the negative defacement. Michael taussig teaches anthropology and has written about peasant economy, shamanism, and fear in colombia, a country he first visited in 1969. He is currently a professor of anthropology at both columbia university and the european graduate school egs in switzerland. In anthropology, michael taussig is one of the leading voices in the search for ways to.
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