The Nervous System - Couverture rigide

Taussig, Michael T.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0415904447 ISBN 13 : 9780415904445

Editeur : Routledge, 1992

Synopsis

Based on anthropological fieldwork in Australia and Colombia these fascinating essays use the workings of the human nervous system to illustrate concepts of culture. The central theme is conveyed by the title's double meaning - on the one hand, portraying the human nervous system as a controlling force, on the other, as a system that is not at all systematic, but nervous, and therefore on the brink of collapse. This book should be of interest to undergraduates, postgraduates and academics in anthropology, critical theory and cultural studies.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

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 Nervous System will appeal to writers, scholars, artists, film makers, and readers interested in critical theory, aesthetics, and politics.

Biographie de l'auteur

Michael Taussig is Professor at Columbia University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 1992
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0415904447
• ISBN 13: 9780415904445
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible