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What color is the sacred? / Michael Taussig.

By: Publisher: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2009Description: 292 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780226790053 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780226790060 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0226790053 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0226790061 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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Contents:
Into the image -- The face of world history -- Licensed transgression -- Where stones walk like men -- Color as crime -- Color walks -- The diver -- Could a cat be a whale? -- In the time of lapis lazuli -- Polymorphous magical substance -- Plasma -- A beautiful blue substance flows into me -- The red butterfly -- Color in the colony -- Administration by bluff -- Walking through fire -- Sailing through color -- Body paint -- The instrument of ethnographic observation -- Color and slavery -- Redeeming indigo -- Opiation of the visual field -- Sex appeal of the inorganic -- Color in Proust -- Crossover men -- Techniques of the body: what we falsely call life -- An hour is not merely an hour -- Cardiac fatigue -- What is the color of the profane? -- Color in coal -- Creature of the lightless depth -- As colors pour from tar -- Colored by weather.
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Book NMC Library Stacks QC495.3 .T398 2009 1 Available 33039001083681

Includes bibliographical references (pages [275]-285) and index.

Into the image -- The face of world history -- Licensed transgression -- Where stones walk like men -- Color as crime -- Color walks -- The diver -- Could a cat be a whale? -- In the time of lapis lazuli -- Polymorphous magical substance -- Plasma -- A beautiful blue substance flows into me -- The red butterfly -- Color in the colony -- Administration by bluff -- Walking through fire -- Sailing through color -- Body paint -- The instrument of ethnographic observation -- Color and slavery -- Redeeming indigo -- Opiation of the visual field -- Sex appeal of the inorganic -- Color in Proust -- Crossover men -- Techniques of the body: what we falsely call life -- An hour is not merely an hour -- Cardiac fatigue -- What is the color of the profane? -- Color in coal -- Creature of the lightless depth -- As colors pour from tar -- Colored by weather.