What color is the sacred?

Taussig, Michael T.

What color is the sacred? [electronic resource] / Michael Taussig. - Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2009. - 292 p. : ill.

Includes bibliographical references 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.


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Color.
Color (Philosophy)


Electronic books.

QC495.3 / .T398 2009

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