04870nam 22008534a 450 991079147430332120230130195416.00-226-79015-01-282-64648-6978661264648510.7208/9780226790152(CKB)2560000000015011(EBL)547716(OCoLC)646067993(SSID)ssj0000423668(PQKBManifestationID)12173008(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000423668(PQKBWorkID)10441209(PQKB)10739371(SSID)ssj0000432117(PQKBManifestationID)11267641(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000432117(PQKBWorkID)10494027(PQKB)11481734(MiAaPQ)EBC547716(DE-B1597)523336(OCoLC)1135593017(DE-B1597)9780226790152(Au-PeEL)EBL547716(CaPaEBR)ebr10395667(CaONFJC)MIL264648(EXLCZ)99256000000001501120030930d2004 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrMy cocaine museum[electronic resource] /Michael TaussigChicago University of Chicago Press20041 online resource (360 p.)Carpenter LecturesDescription based upon print version of record.0-226-79009-6 0-226-79008-8 Includes bibliographical references (p. 319-328) and index.Frontmatter --Contents --Author's Note: A User's Guide --Gold --My Cocaine Museum --Color --Heat --Wind & Weather --Rain --Boredom --Diving --Water in Water --Julio Arboleda's Stone --Mines --Entropy --Moonshine --The Accursed Share --A Dog Growls --The Coast Is No Longer Boring --Paramilitary Lover --Cement & Speed --Miasma --Swamp --The Right to Be Lazy --Beaches --Lightning --Bocanegra --Stone --Evil Eye --Gorgon --Gorgona --Islands --Underwater Mountains --Sloth --Afterword --Acknowledgments --Bibliography --IndexIn this book, a make-believe cocaine museum becomes a 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 República, Taussig's museum is also a parody aimed at the museum's failure to acknowledge the African slaves who mined the country's wealth for almost four hundred years. Combining natural history with political history in a filmic, montage style, Taussig deploys the show-and-tell modality of a museum to engage with the inner life of heat, rain, stone, and swamp, no less than with the life of gold and cocaine. This effort to find a poetry of words becoming things is brought to a head by the explosive qualities of those sublime fetishes of evil beauty, gold and cocaine. At its core, Taussig's museum is about the lure of forbidden things, charged substances that transgress moral codes, the distinctions we use to make sense of the world, and above all the conventional way we write stories.Indians of South AmericaColombiaSanta María (Cauca)Social conditionsIndians of South AmericaColombiaSanta María (Cauca)Economic conditionsIndians, Treatment ofColombiaSanta María (Cauca)SlaveryColombiaSanta María (Cauca)HistoryGold mines and miningColombiaSanta María (Cauca)Cocaine industryColombiaSanta María (Cauca)Drug trafficColombiaSanta María (Cauca)Santa María (Cauca, Colombia)Social conditionsSanta María (Cauca, Colombia)Economic conditionsgold museum, pacific coast, colombia, miners, cocaine, rain forest, slavery, slaves, labor, colonialism, transgression, forbidden, afro-colombian, banco de la republica, race, racism, exploitation, capitalism, wealth, politics, history, fetish, corruption, indigenous, native, santa maraia, cauca, mines, drug traffic, nonfiction.Indians of South AmericaSocial conditions.Indians of South AmericaEconomic conditions.Indians, Treatment ofSlaveryHistory.Gold mines and miningCocaine industryDrug traffic986.1/53Taussig Michael T101224MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910791474303321My cocaine museum3719214UNINA