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My Cocaine Museum
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afro-colombian
Author_Michael Taussig
banco de la republica
capitalism
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cauca
cocaine
colombia
colonialism
corruption
drug traffic
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exploitation
fetish
forbidden
gold museum
history
indigenous
labor
miners
mines
native
nonfiction
pacific coast
politics
race
racism
rain forest
santa maraia
slavery
slaves
transgression
wealth
Product details
- ISBN 9780226790084
- Weight: 709g
- Dimensions: 16 x 24mm
- Publication Date: 01 May 2004
- Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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In this book, a make-believe cocaine museum becomes a disturbing 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 Republica, Taussig's "museum" is also a parody aimed at the museum's lack of acknowledgment of the African slaves who mined the country's wealth for almost four hundred years. In a work combining natural history with political history, Taussig exploits the show-and-tell modality of a museum to engage with the inner life - both material and spiritual - of "artifacts" such as heat, rain, stone, and swamp. As much a contribution to literature as to the study of literature, My Cocaine Museum strives to combine a history of things with a history of people. This effort to find a poetry of words becoming things is brought to a head by the explosive qualities of those supreme fetishes of evil beauty: gold and cocaine. At its core, Taussig's "museum" is about the lure of forbidden things, matter out of place.
Michael Taussig is professor of anthropology at Columbia University. He is the author of eight books, including Shamanism, Colonialism, and the Wild Man: A Study in Terror and Healing, also published by the University of Chicago Press.
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