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My Cocaine Museum (Paperback, 2nd ed.)
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My Cocaine Museum (Paperback, 2nd ed.)
Series: Carpenter Lectures
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In this book, a make-believe cocaine museum becomes a disturbing
vantage point from which to assess the lives of Afro-Colombian gold
miners drawn into the dangerous world of cocaine production in the
rain forest of Colombia's Pacific Coast. Although modeled on the
famous Gold Museum in Colombia's central bank, the Banco de la
Republica, Taussig's "museum" is also a parody aimed at the
museum's lack of acknowledgment of the African slaves who mined the
country's wealth for almost four hundred years. In a work combining
natural history with political history, Taussig exploits the
show-and-tell modality of a museum to engage with the inner life -
both material and spiritual - of "artifacts" such as heat, rain,
stone, and swamp. As much a contribution to literature as to the
study of literature, My Cocaine Museum strives to combine a history
of things with a history of people. This effort to find a poetry of
words becoming things is brought to a head by the explosive
qualities of those supreme fetishes of evil beauty: gold and
cocaine. At its core, Taussig's "museum" is about the lure of
forbidden things, matter out of place.
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