TY  - BOOK
AU  - Taussig,Michael T.
TI  - My cocaine museum
SN  - 9780226790152 (electronic bk.)
AV  - F2269.1.S24 T28 2004eb
U1  - 986.1/53 22
PY  - 2004///
CY  - Chicago
PB  - University of Chicago Press
KW  - Indians of South America
KW  - Colombia
KW  - Santa María (Cauca)
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Economic conditions
KW  - Indians, Treatment of
KW  - Slavery
KW  - History
KW  - Gold mines and mining
KW  - Cocaine industry
KW  - Drug traffic
KW  - Indiens d'Amérique
KW  - Colombie
KW  - Conditions sociales
KW  - Conditions économiques
KW  - Indiens d'Amérique, Attitudes envers les
KW  - Esclavage
KW  - Histoire
KW  - Or
KW  - Mines et extraction
KW  - Cocaïne
KW  - Industrie
KW  - Drogues
KW  - Trafic
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Soziale Situation
KW  - swd
KW  - Goldbergbau
KW  - Drogenhandel
KW  - Santa María (Cauca, Colombia)
KW  - Santa María (Cauca, Colombie)
KW  - Indianer
KW  - Kolumbien
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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