TY  - BOOK
AU  - Taussig,Michael T.
TI  - The nervous system
SN  - 0415904447
AV  - GN345 .T38 1991
U1  - 301.01 20
PY  - 1992///
CY  - New York
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Anthropology
KW  - Philosophy
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-199) and index; The Jewish voice : chicken soup, or the penalties of sounding too Jewish -- The Jewish foot : a foot-note to the Jewish body -- The Jewish psyche : Freud, Dora, and the idea of the hysteric -- The Jewish murderer : Jack the Ripper, race, and gender -- The Jewish genius : Freud and the Jewishness of the creative -- The Jewish reader : Freud reads Heine reads Freud -- The Jewish nose : are Jews white?, or, The history of the nose job -- The Jewish essence : anti-Semitism and the body in psychoanalysis -- The Jewish disease : plague in Germany, 1939/1989 -- Too black Jews and too white Blacks
N2  - "In a series of intriguing essays ranging over terror, State fetishism, shamanic healing in Latin America, homesickness, and the place of the tactile eye in both magic and modernity, anthropologist Michael Taussig puts into representational practice a curious type of engaged writing. Based on a paranoiac vision of social control and its understanding as in a permanent state of emergency leaving no room for contemplation between signs and things, these essays hover between story-telling and high theory and thus create strange new modes of critical discourse. The Nervous System will appeal to writers, scholars, artists, film makers, and readers interested in critical theory, aesthetics, and politics."--Publisher description
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