Download or read book The Magic of the State written by Michael Taussig and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-18 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in the enchanted mountain of a spirit-queen presiding over an unnamed, postcolonial country, this ethnographic work of ficto-criticism recreates in written form the shrines by which the dead--notably the fetishized forms of Europe's Others, Indians and Blacks--generate the magical powers of the modern state.