Corpse Magic: Echoes Active in the Slayer-Slain Nexus - Softcover

Taussig, Michael

 
9780226837413: Corpse Magic: Echoes Active in the Slayer-Slain Nexus
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ISBN 10: 0226837416 ISBN 13: 9780226837413
Verlag: University of Chicago Press, 2025

Inhaltsangabe

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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Michael Taussig is emeritus professor of anthropology at Columbia University. He is the author of many books, including And the Garden Is You and Mastery of Non-Mastery in the Age of Meltdown, both published by the University of Chicago Press.

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Verlag
University of Chicago Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2025
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0226837416
ISBN 13 
9780226837413
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