My cocaine museum [electronic resource] / Michael Taussig.
By: Taussig, Michael T.
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TextPublisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2004Description: 1 online resource (xix, 336 p.) : ill.ISBN: 9780226790152 (electronic bk.); 0226790150 (electronic bk.).Subject(s): Indians of South America -- Colombia -- Santa María (Cauca) -- Social conditions | Indians of South America -- Colombia -- Santa María (Cauca) -- Economic conditions | Indians, Treatment of -- Colombia -- Santa María (Cauca) | Slavery -- Colombia -- Santa María (Cauca) -- History | Gold mines and mining -- Colombia -- Santa María (Cauca) | Cocaine industry -- Colombia -- Santa María (Cauca) | Drug traffic -- Colombia -- Santa María (Cauca) | Santa María (Cauca, Colombia) -- Social conditions | Santa María (Cauca, Colombia) -- Economic conditions | History | Indiens d'Amérique -- Colombie -- Santa María (Cauca) -- Conditions sociales | Indiens d'Amérique -- Colombie -- Santa María (Cauca) -- Conditions économiques | Indiens d'Amérique, Attitudes envers les -- Colombie -- Santa María (Cauca) | Esclavage -- Colombie -- Santa María (Cauca) -- Histoire | Or -- Mines et extraction -- Colombie -- Santa María (Cauca) | Cocaïne -- Industrie -- Colombie -- Santa María (Cauca) | Drogues -- Trafic -- Colombie -- Santa María (Cauca) | Santa María (Cauca, Colombie) -- Conditions sociales | Santa María (Cauca, Colombia) -- Conditions économiques | HISTORY | Soziale Situation | Goldbergbau | Drogenhandel | Indianer | KolumbienGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: My cocaine museum.DDC classification: 986.1/53 LOC classification: F2269.1.S24 | T28 2004ebOnline resources: EBSCOhost | Item type | Current location | Call number | URL | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 319-328) and index.
Gold -- My cocaine museum -- Color -- Heat -- Wind & weather -- Rain -- Boredom -- Diving -- Water in water -- Julio Arboleda's stone -- Mines -- Entropy -- Moonshine -- The accursed share -- A dog growls -- The coast is no longer boring -- Paramilitary lover -- Cement & speed -- Miasma -- Swamp -- The right to be lazy -- Beaches -- Lightning -- Bocanegra -- Stone -- Evil eye -- Gorgon -- Gorgona -- Islands -- Underwater mountains -- Sloth.
Description based on print version record.
In this book, a make-believe cocaine museum becomes a vantage point from which to assess the lives of Afro-Colombian gold miners drawn into the dangerous world of cocaine production in the rain forest of Colombia's Pacific Coast. Although modeled on the famous Gold Museum in Colombia's central bank, the Banco de la República, Taussig's museum is also a parody aimed at the museum's failure to acknowledge the African slaves who mined the country's wealth for almost four hundred years.Combining natural history with political history in a filmic, montage style, Taussig deploys the show-and-tell mo.
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