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Corpse Magic

- Echoes Active in the Slayer-Slain Nexus
Af: Michael Taussig Engelsk Paperback

Corpse Magic

- Echoes Active in the Slayer-Slain Nexus
Af: Michael Taussig Engelsk Paperback
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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. Drawing 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.  
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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. Drawing 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.  
Produktdetaljer
Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 320
ISBN-13: 9780226837413
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 0226837416
Kategori: Vold i samfundet
Udg. Dato: 1 apr 2025
Længde: 23mm
Bredde: 229mm
Højde: 151mm
Forlag: The University of Chicago Press
Oplagsdato: 1 apr 2025
Forfatter(e): Michael Taussig
Forfatter(e) Michael Taussig


Kategori Vold i samfundet


ISBN-13 9780226837413


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Paperback


Sider 320


Udgave


Længde 23mm


Bredde 229mm


Højde 151mm


Udg. Dato 1 apr 2025


Oplagsdato 1 apr 2025


Forlag The University of Chicago Press

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