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Michael Taussig Defacement (Paperback)
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- Book Title
- Defacement : Public Secrecy and the Labor of the Negative
- Publication Name
- Defacement
- Title
- Defacement
- Subtitle
- Public Secrecy and the Labor of the Negative
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 0804732000
- EAN
- 9780804732000
- ISBN
- 9780804732000
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Genre
- Social Science
- Topic
- Anthropology / Cultural & Social
- Release Year
- 1999
- Release Date
- 01/09/1999
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.6in
- Item Length
- 9in
- Item Weight
- 18.6 Oz
- Publication Year
- 1999
- Item Width
- 6in
- Number of Pages
- 325 Pages
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Defacement asks what happens when something precious is despoiled. It begins with the notion that such activity is attractive in its very repulsion, and that it creates something sacred even in the most secular of societies and circumstances. In specifying the human face as the ideal type for thinking through such violation, this book raises the issue of secrecy as the depth that seems to surface with the tearing of surface. This surfacing is made all the more subtle and ingenious, not to mention everyday, by the deliberately partial exposures involved in "the public secret"--defined as what is generally known but, for one reason or another, cannot easily be articulated.Arguing that this sort of knowledge ("knowing what not to know") is the most powerful form of social knowledge, Taussig works with ideas and motifs from Nietzsche, William Burroughs, Elias Canetti, Georges Bataille, and the ethnography of unmasking in so-called primitive societies in order to extend his earlier work on mimesis and transgression. Underlying his concern with defacement and the public secret is the search for a mode of truth telling that unmasks, but only to reenchant, thereby underlining Walter Benjamin's notion that "truth is not a matter of exposure of the secret, but a revelation that does justice to it."
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Publisher
Stanford University Press
ISBN-10
0804732000
ISBN-13
9780804732000
eBay Product ID (ePID)
229531
Product Key Features
Book Title
Defacement : Public Secrecy and the Labor of the Negative
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Anthropology / Cultural & Social
Publication Year
1999
Genre
Social Science
Number of Pages
325 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Height
0.6in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
18.6 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Gn345
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"This volume [which asks what happens when something precious is despoiled] is vintage Taussig. . . . It has the hallmarks of his other works-originality, unusual associations among diverse sources, provocative and definitely contestable interpretations of classic theoretical texts, and a generally intimate, fascinated style of communicating with his readers."-George Marcus, Rice University, This volume [which asks what happens when something precious is despoiled] is vintage Taussig. . . . It has the hallmarks of his other works—originality, unusual associations among diverse sources, provocative and definitely contestable interpretations of classic theoretical texts, and a generally intimate, fascinated style of communicating with his readers."—George Marcus, Rice University, "This volume [which asks what happens when something precious is despoiled] is vintage Taussig. . . . It has the hallmarks of his other works--originality, unusual associations among diverse sources, provocative and definitely contestable interpretations of classic theoretical texts, and a generally intimate, fascinated style of communicating with his readers."--George Marcus, Rice University
Copyright Date
1999
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
99-027085
Dewey Decimal
305.8/001
Dewey Edition
21
Illustrated
Yes
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