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Set in the enchanted mountain of a spirit-queen presiding over an unnamed, postcolonial country, this ethnographic work of ficto-criticism recreates in written form the shrines by which the dead--notably the fetishized forms of Europe's Others, Indians and Blacks--generate the magical powers of the modern state.

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    • Title: The Magic of the State by Michael Taussig
    • Publisher: Taylor & Francis
    • Print ISBN: 9780415917919, 0415917913
    • eText ISBN: 9781135249113
    • Edition: 1997 1st edition
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