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Corpse Magic: Echoes Active in the Slayer-Slain Nexus
ISBN: 9780226837390 / Angielski / Twarda / 2025 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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476,24 |
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Mastery of Non-Mastery in the Age of Meltdown
ISBN: 9780226684581 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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336,47 |
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The Corn Wolf
ISBN: 9780226310855 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Collecting a decade of work from iconic anthropologist and writer Michael Taussig, The Corn Wolf pinpoints a moment of intellectual development for the master stylist, exemplifying the "nervous system" approach to writing and truth that has characterized his trajectory. Pressured by the permanent state of emergency that imbues our times, this approach marries storytelling with theory, thickening spiraling analysis with ethnography and putting the study of so-called primitive societies back on the anthropological agenda as a way of better understanding the sacred in everyday life. ...
Collecting a decade of work from iconic anthropologist and writer Michael Taussig, The Corn Wolf pinpoints a moment of intellectual development...
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108,71 |
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Beauty and the Beast
ISBN: 9780226789866 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Beauty and the Beastbegins with the question: Is beauty destined to end in tragedy? Drawing on extensive fieldwork in Colombia, Michael Taussig scrutinizes the anxious, audacious, and sometimes destructive attempts people make to transform their bodies through cosmetic surgery and liposuction. He balances an examination of surgeries meant to enhance an individual s beauty with an often overlooked counterpart, surgeries performed often on high profile criminals to disguise one s identity. Situating this globally shared phenomenon within the economic, cultural, and political history... Beauty and the Beastbegins with the question: Is beauty destined to end in tragedy? Drawing on extensive fieldwork in Colombia, Michael Taus... |
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Shamanism, Colonialism, and the Wild Man: A Study in Terror and Healing
ISBN: 9780226790138 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 538 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Working with the image of the Indian shaman as Wild Man, Taussig reveals not the magic of the shaman but that of the politicizing fictions creating the effect of the real. "This extraordinary book . . . will encourage ever more critical and creative explorations."--Fernando Coronil, I]American Journal of Sociology /I] "Taussig has brought a formidable collection of data from arcane literary, journalistic, and biographical sources to bear on . . . questions of evil, torture, and politically institutionalized hatred and terror. His intent is laudable, and much of the book is brilliant,...
Working with the image of the Indian shaman as Wild Man, Taussig reveals not the magic of the shaman but that of the politicizing fictions creating th...
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170,82 |
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What We Mean by the American Dream: Stories We Tell about Meritocracy
ISBN: 9781501754685 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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The Nervous System
ISBN: 9781138139831 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In a series of intriguing essays ranging over terror, State fetishism, shamanic healing in Latin America, homesickness, and the place of the tactile eye in both magic and modernity, anthropologist Michael Taussig puts into representational practice a curious type of engaged writing. Based on a paranoiac vision of social control and its understanding as in a permanent state of emergency leaving no room for contemplation between signs and things, these essays hover between story-telling and high theory and thus create strange new modes of critical discourse. The...
In a series of intriguing essays ranging over terror, State fetishism, shamanic healing in Latin America, homesickness, and the place of the tactile e...
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762,24 |
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Walter Benjamin's Grave
ISBN: 9780226790046 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In September 1940, Walter Benjamin committed suicide in Port Bou on the Spanish-French border when it appeared that he and his travelling partners would be denied passage into Spain in their attempt to escape the Nazis. In 2002, one of anthropology s and indeed today s most distinctive writers, Michael Taussig, visited Benjamin s grave in Port Bou. The result is Walter Benjamin s Grave, a moving essay about the cemetery, eyewitness accounts of Benjamin s border travails, and the circumstances of his demise. It is the most recent of eight revelatory essays collected in this volume of the same...
In September 1940, Walter Benjamin committed suicide in Port Bou on the Spanish-French border when it appeared that he and his travelling partners wou...
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The Magic of the State
ISBN: 9780415917902 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The author describes how through theatres of ecstasy, the State, for the perpetuation of its spiritual authority, needs to tell about itself. Developing concepts of the sacred from Bataille, the post-Surreal College of Sociology, Canetti, Marx, Hobbes and Walter Benjamin, Taussig creates his own theatre of spirit-possession utitlizing popular shrines, official monuments and slogans, money, the police, the freeway system, automobiles, taxis, the stealing of the sword of the state and, through fetishization of Europe's (dead) others, Native Americans and people of African descent.
The author describes how through theatres of ecstasy, the State, for the perpetuation of its spiritual authority, needs to tell about itself. Developi...
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Defacement: Public Secrecy and the Labor of the Negative
ISBN: 9780804732000 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 325 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Defacement asks what happens when something precious is despoiled. It begins with the notion that such activity is attractive in its very repulsion, and that it creates something sacred even in the most secular of societies and circumstances. In specifying the human face as the ideal type for thinking through such violation, this book raises the issue of secrecy as the depth that seems to surface with the tearing of surface. This surfacing is made all the more subtle and ingenious, not to mention everyday, by the deliberately partial exposures involved in "the public secret"--defined...
Defacement asks what happens when something precious is despoiled. It begins with the notion that such activity is attractive in its very repul...
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134,87 |
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Palma Africana
ISBN: 9780226515946 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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414,12 |
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Ordinary Genomes: Science, Citizenship, and Genetic Identities
ISBN: 9780822345343 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 262 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. "Ordinary Genomes" is an ethnography of genomics, a global scientific enterprise, as it is understood and practiced in the Netherlands. Karen-Sue Taussig's analysis of the Dutch case illustrates how scientific knowledge and culture are entwined: Genetics may transform society, but society also transforms genetics. Taussig traces the experiences of Dutch people as they encounter genetics in research labs, clinics, the media, and everyday life. Through vivid descriptions of specific diagnostic processes, she illuminates the open and evolving nature of genetic categories, the ways that abnormal...
"Ordinary Genomes" is an ethnography of genomics, a global scientific enterprise, as it is understood and practiced in the Netherlands. Karen-Sue Taus...
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I Swear I Saw This: Drawings in Fieldwork Notebooks, Namely My Own
ISBN: 9780226789835 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. "I Swear I Saw This" records visionary anthropologist Michael Taussig s reflections on the fieldwork notebooks he kept through forty years of travels in Colombia. Taking as a starting point a drawing he made in Medellin in 2006 as well as its caption, I swear I saw this Taussig considers the fieldwork notebook as a type of modernist literature and the place where writers and other creators first work out the imaginative logic of discovery.Notebooks mix the raw material of observation with reverie, juxtaposed, in Taussig s case, with drawings, watercolors, and newspaper cuttings, which blend...
"I Swear I Saw This" records visionary anthropologist Michael Taussig s reflections on the fieldwork notebooks he kept through forty years of travels ...
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The Nervous System
ISBN: 9780415904452 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In a series of intriguing essays ranging over terror, State fetishism, shamanic healing in Latin America, homesickness, and the place of the tactile eye in both magic and modernity, anthropologist Michael Taussig puts into representational practice a curious type of engaged writing. Based on a paranoiac vision of social control and its understanding as in a permanent state of emergency leaving no room for contemplation between signs and things, these essays hover between story-telling and high theory and thus create strange new modes of critical discourse. The...
In a series of intriguing essays ranging over terror, State fetishism, shamanic healing in Latin America, homesickness, and the place of the tactile e...
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245,84 |
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Mimesis and Alterity: A Particular History of the Senses
ISBN: 9780415906876 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In his most ambitious and accomplished work to date, Michael Taussig undertakes a history of mimesis, the practice of imitation, and its relation to alterity, the opposition of Self and Other. Drawing upon such diverse sources as theories of Benjamin, Adorno and Horckheimer, research on the Cuna Indians, and theories of colonialism and postcolonialism, Taussig shows that the history of mimesis is deeply tied to colonialism, and more specifically, to the colonial trade's construction of "savages." With analysis that is vigorous, unorthodox, and often breathtaking, Taussig's cross-cultural...
In his most ambitious and accomplished work to date, Michael Taussig undertakes a history of mimesis, the practice of imitation, and its relation to a...
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Mimesis and Alterity: A Particular History of the Senses
ISBN: 9781138282759 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In this ambitious and accomplished work, Taussig explores the complex and interwoven concepts of mimesis, the practice of imitation, and alterity, the opposition of Self and Other. The book moves from the nineteenth-century invention of mimetically capacious machines, such as the camera, to the fable of colonial 'first contact' and the alleged mimetic power of 'primitives'. Twenty years after the original publication, Taussig revisits the work in a new preface which contextualises the impact of Mimesis and Alterity. Drawing on the ideas of Benjamin, Adorno and Horckheimer and...
In this ambitious and accomplished work, Taussig explores the complex and interwoven concepts of mimesis, the practice of imitation, and alterity, the...
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Michael Polanyi: Scientist and Philosopher
ISBN: 9780195174335 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 394 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Michael Polanyi was one of the great figures of European intellectual life in the 20th century. A highly acclaimed physical chemist in the first period of his career who became a celebrated philosopher after World War II, Polanyi taught in Germany, England, and the United States and associated with many of the leading intellects of his time. His biography has remained unwritten partly because his many and scattered interests in a wide variety of fields, including six subfields of physical chemistry, epistemology, economics, patent law, social and political theory, aesthetics, and theology....
Michael Polanyi was one of the great figures of European intellectual life in the 20th century. A highly acclaimed physical chemist in the first perio...
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Dancing on the head of a pin: Tales & Poems
ISBN: 9781499724257 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 178 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A collection of magical short stories told in prose and poetry. In Montreal an heir to a fortune is on the run and hiding from his billion dollars. In Prague an artist of microscopic miniatures has his life's work vacuumed up by mistake. A woman in Berkley California is convinced that her entire family has been abducted and replaced by imposters, and Jehovah, God almighty, working as a junior librarian in Toronto, is engaged in a life or death battle with His creator. These are just a few of the characters and situations inhabiting the hilarious, fantastic, and yet strangely familiar, world...
A collection of magical short stories told in prose and poetry. In Montreal an heir to a fortune is on the run and hiding from his billion dollars. In...
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The Atheist's Guide To Miracles
ISBN: 9781477615188 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Some events defy statistics and common sense, like winning the lottery four times in a row. For believers it's just God doing His thing. Atheists and agnostics don't have it that easy. What are these astounding synchronicities and highly improbable lucky breaks? Are they just coincidences or is there something else at work here? Drawing on science, mathematics, psychology, and philosophy, this book places the miraculous into a rational framework, and suggest strategies for harnessing its power in your decision-making and worldview. That's just half the story. The other half is the author's...
Some events defy statistics and common sense, like winning the lottery four times in a row. For believers it's just God doing His thing. Atheists and ...
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Bring a Friend
ISBN: 9780578452043 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 30 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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66,58 |
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