Taussig, Michael T.

Walter Benjamin's grave [electronic resource] / Michael Taussig. - University of Chicago Press, 2006. - 1 online resource (xi, 245 p.) : ill.

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.

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.

9780226790008 (electronic bk.) 0226790002 (electronic bk.)

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Anthropology--Fieldwork.
Anthropologie--Recherche sur le terrain.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Regional Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Anthropology--General.
Anthropologie.
Feldforschung.


Electronic books.

GN34.3.F53 / T38 2006eb

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