LEADER 03971nam 22006254a 450 001 9910810252203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-226-79000-2 010 $a1-282-53819-5 010 $a9786612538193 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226790008 035 $a(CKB)2550000000012538 035 $a(EBL)530448 035 $a(OCoLC)630542341 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000430789 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11270756 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000430789 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10456571 035 $a(PQKB)10667526 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000121885 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC530448 035 $a(DE-B1597)523427 035 $a(OCoLC)748211790 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226790008 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL530448 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10383911 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL253819 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000012538 100 $a20060301d2006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aWalter Benjamin's grave /$fMichael Taussig 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aChicago $cUniversity of Chicago Press$d2006 215 $a1 online resource (259 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-226-79004-5 311 $a0-226-79003-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 221-240) and index. 327 $aWalter Benjamin's grave -- Constructing America -- The sun gives without receiving -- The beach (a fantasy) -- Viscerality, faith, and skepticism : another theory of magic -- Transgression -- NYPD blues -- The language of flowers. 330 $aIn September 1940, Walter Benjamin committed suicide in Port Bou on the Spanish-French border when it appeared that he and his travelling partners would be denied passage into Spain in their attempt to escape the Nazis. In 2002, one of anthropology's-and indeed today's-most distinctive writers, Michael Taussig, visited Benjamin's grave in Port Bou. The result is "Walter Benjamin's Grave," a moving essay about the cemetery, eyewitness accounts of Benjamin's border travails, and the circumstances of his demise. It is the most recent of eight revelatory essays collected in this volume of the same name. "Looking over these essays written over the past decade," writes Taussig, "I think what they share is a love of muted and defective storytelling as a form of analysis. Strange love indeed; love of the wound, love of the last gasp." Although thematically these essays run the gamut-covering the monument and graveyard at Port Bou, discussions of peasant poetry in Colombia, a pact with the devil, the peculiarities of a shaman's body, transgression, the disappearance of the sea, New York City cops, and the relationship between flowers and violence-each shares Taussig's highly individual brand of storytelling, one that depends on a deep appreciation of objects and things as a way to retrieve even deeper philosophical and anthropological meanings. Whether he finds himself in Australia, Colombia, Manhattan, or Spain, in the midst of a book or a beach, whether talking to friends or staring at a monument, Taussig makes clear through these marvelous essays that materialist knowledge offers a crucial alternative to the increasingly abstract, globalized, homogenized, and digitized world we inhabit. Pursuing an adventure that is part ethnography, part autobiography, and part cultural criticism refracted through the object that is Walter Benjamin's grave, Taussig, with this collection, provides his own literary memorial to the twentieth century's greatest cultural critic. 606 $aAnthropology$xFieldwork 615 0$aAnthropology$xFieldwork. 676 $a301.072/3 700 $aTaussig$b Michael T$0101224 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910810252203321 996 $aWalter Benjamin's grave$94092837 997 $aUNINA