The Corn Wolf

Author : Michael Taussig
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022631085X
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Corn Wolf written by Michael Taussig and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-12 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the vein of his books "The""Nervous System "and "Walter Benjamin s "Grave, "The Corn Wolf "presents a collection of essays that capture well Michael Taussig s ongoing development/trajectory as a writer and his recent move toward storytelling "as" theory. The thrust, in a nutshell, is to extend and develop the contrast between the "Nervous System "style of writing, writing that arises from what Taussig calls the bodily unconscious, and what he now refers to as agribusiness writing, a type of writing that strips ethnography not only of its capacity to surprise but also to connect with another world. Taussig defends ethnography from agribusiness writing just as the corn wolf in Frazer s "Golden Bough" inspirits and defends agricultural crops from the reapers. A crucial aspect of this analogy is that the corn animal "occupies" the field protecting it from disease and disaster, in short from profanation. Taussig calls this apotropaic magic as opposed to the magic that transforms crops (read ethnography ) into mere food (read scholarly article or theory ). His essays explore the idea of occupation in a variety of contexts and meanings such as Palestine and Wall Street."

Author : Arturo Warman
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807854372
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Corn & Capitalism written by Arturo Warman and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the history and importance of corn worldwide, Arturo Warman traces its development from a New World food of poor and despised peoples into a commodity that plays a major role in the modern global economy. The book, first published in Mexico i

Author : James George Frazer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Golden Bough: pt. 1-2. Spirits of the corn and of the wild. 1912 written by James George Frazer and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert Eisler
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1446545547
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Man Into Wolf - An Anthropological Interpretation of Sadism, Masochism, and Lycanthropy written by Robert Eisler and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2013-04-16 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Author : Sir James George Frazer
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486119726
Total Pages : 772 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Golden Bough written by Sir James George Frazer and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-04-26 with total page 772 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Classic 1890 study of cults, rites, and myths of antiquity helped define terms of social anthropology, influencing generations of thinkers. Abridgment omits footnotes, occasionally condenses text; all main principles remain intact.

Author : Christoph Wulf
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226925080
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Anthropology written by Christoph Wulf and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-04-08 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in German, Christoph Wulf’s Anthropology sets its sights on a topic as ambitious as its title suggests: anthropology itself. Arguing for an interdisciplinary and intercultural approach to anthropology that incorporates science, philosophy, history, and many other disciplines, Wulf examines—with breathtaking scope—all the ways that anthropology has been understood and practiced around the globe and through the years. Seeking a central way to understand anthropology in the midst of many different approaches to the discipline, Wulf concentrates on the human body. An emblem of society, culture, and time, the body is also the result of many mimetic processes—the active acquisition of cultural knowledge. By examining the role of the body in the performance of rituals, gestures, language, and other forms of imagination, he offers a bold new look at how culture is produced, handed down, and transformed. Drawing such examinations into a comprehensive and sophisticated assessment of the discipline as a whole, Anthropology looks squarely at the mystery of humankind and the ways we have attempted to understand it.

Author : James George Frazer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Killing the god written by James George Frazer and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Michael Taussig
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 022669867X
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mastery of Non-Mastery in the Age of Meltdown written by Michael Taussig and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "For a long time, we humans have excelled in mimicking nature with the goal of exploiting it. Now, with the existential threat of global climate change on the horizon, the ever-provocative Michael Taussig asks what it would take to change ourselves so as to save our world. Acknowledging the possibility of collapse and our all-too-human impotence in the face of accelerating disaster, this book is not solely a reflection on our tragic condition but also a theoretical effort to reckon with those human faculties that have fed our ambition for dominance over nature. At stake is an ultimate undoing of our sense of control--a "mastery of non-mastery." Animated by the urgency of a planet approaching meltdown, Taussig captures our moment, and all its attendant mythologies, with luminescent clarity"--

Author : Jennifer Maimone
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780991123902
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alpha Wolf Series written by Jennifer Maimone and published by . This book was released on 2014-05-19 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For months, socially withdrawn Dr. Brent Carson has been reading about women being abducted throughout the city, the most recent article revealing how all of them may have been practitioners of witchcraft. Out of curiosity, Brent decides to personally investigate what is going on, but is distracted when four friends move to the city, all of whom he knows to be werewolves - except for Angela Dane, who is only half. Angela is an energetic, talented and very spirited girl. She is extremely close and loyal to her friends, but the first moment Brent sees Angela, there is something about her he finds disturbing. He cannot understand why, but his first reaction towards her is one of hatred, inexplicably feeling as if she shouldn't even be alive. That night, Angela is attacked by a psychotic demon, one who has been stealing paranormal beings for centuries and taking them to hell for his personal version of trafficking. The demon almost claims her as his newest prize, only to have his interests quickly switch to Brent the moment he learns of his true identity.

Author : Rick McIntyre
Publisher : Voyageur Press (MN)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book War Against the Wolf written by Rick McIntyre and published by Voyageur Press (MN). This book was released on 1995 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compilation of journal entries, essays, reports, government documents, and articles on the history of American attitudes towards wolves.