My cocaine museum
Michael Taussig.
Bok Engelsk 2004 Michael T. Taussig,· Electronic books.
| Utgitt | Chicago : : University of Chicago Press, , 2004.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (360 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Contents; Author's Note: A User's Guide; 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; Afterword; Acknowledgments; Bibliography; Index. - 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 sho
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| Emner | Cocaine industry - Colombia Santa María (Cauca)
Drug traffic - Colombia Santa María (Cauca) Gold mines and mining - Colombia Santa María (Cauca) Indians of South America - Economic conditions - Colombia Santa María (Cauca) Vis mer... Indians of South America - Social conditions - Colombia Santa María (Cauca)
Indians, Treatment of - Colombia Santa María (Cauca) Santa María (Cauca, Colombia) - Economic conditions Santa María (Cauca, Colombia) - Social conditions Slavery - History - Colombia Santa María (Cauca) colombia indianere cauca slaveri gullgruver kokain antropologi sosialantropologi |
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| ISBN | 0226790088. - 0226790096
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