TY - BOOK AU - Taussig,Michael T. TI - Walter Benjamin's grave SN - 9780226790008 (electronic bk.) AV - GN34.3.F53 T38 2006eb U1 - 301.072/3 22 PY - 2006/// CY - Chicago PB - University of Chicago Press KW - Anthropology KW - Fieldwork KW - Anthropologie KW - Recherche sur le terrain KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE KW - Regional Studies KW - bisacsh KW - General KW - swd KW - Feldforschung KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-240) and index; Walter Benjamin's grave -- Constructing America -- The sun gives without receiving -- The beach (a fantasy) -- Viscerality, faith, and skepticism : another theory of magic -- Transgression -- NYPD blues -- The language of flowers N2 - Pursuing an adventure that is part ethnography, part autobiography, and part cultural criticism refracted through the object that is Walter Benjamin's grave, Taussig, with this collection, provides his own literary memorial to the 20th century's greatest cultural critic UR - http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=333854 ER -