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Journal

2016 | 37 | 99-117

Article title

Kolonialna mimesis: od „dzikiego” do proletariusza. Antropologia Michaela Taussiga w perspektywie Benjaminowskiego mesjanizmu.

Title variants

EN
Colonial Mimesis: from the “Wild” to Proletarian. Anthropology of Michael Taussig in the Perspective of Benjamin Messianism.

Languages of publication

PL

Abstracts

EN
Michael Taussig is a contemporary anthropologist, whose main interest lay in South-American peasentry and it’s relevence to world’s capitalist system. His writings deal with problems which are the goals of so-called „postcolonial theory” but to this day it wasn’t clearly reconsidered. My aim is to re-think the Taussigian „culture of death”/”space of death” concepts in perspective of Walter Benjamin’s messianic theory, but to do it with accordance to the question: what could postcolonial theory learn from it? It is important to rewrite the history of postcolonial theory, but with being aware of falling into one of two main aporias: marxism and postmodernism. The shamanic ritual opens for us a space from where the dead are calling the living and thus, transcends any material culture into some kind of endless passage of ancestors.

Journal

Year

Issue

37

Pages

99-117

Physical description

Contributors

  • Uniwersytet Szczeciński

References

  • M. Taussig, The Devil and Commodity Fetishism in South America, Chicago 1980 A. Lipszyc, Sprawiedliwość na końcu języka. Czytanie Waltera Benjamina, Kraków 2012 M. Taussig, Shamanism, Colonialism an the Wild Man: A Study in Terror and Healing, Chicago 1987 M. Taussig, The Nervous System, Chicago 1992 R. Hertz, A Contribution to the Study of the Collective Representation of Death, w: idem, Death and the Right Hand, The Free Press Glencoe: Illinois 1960 M. Taussig, Law in a Lawless Land: Diary of a Limpieza in Columbia, Chicago 2003 A. Szyjewski, Etnologia religii, Kraków 2001 E. Nowicka, Antropolog, czarownik i ich magia, czyli o badaniu szamanizmu w XXI wieku, w: Antropolog i jego magia. Współczesne inspiracje twórczością Claude’a Levi-Straussa, red. E. Nowicka, M. Głowacka-Grajper, Kraków 2013 B. Malinowski, Życie seksualne dzikich w północno-zachodniej Melanezji, Warszawa 1984 C. Levi-Strauss, Skuteczność symboliczna, w: idem, Antropologia strukturalna, tłum. K. Pomian, Warszawa 2009 K.N. Denzin, Dyskursy emancypacyjne. Etyka i polityka interpretacji, w: Metody badań jakościowych, t. II, red. N.K. Denzin, Y.S. Lincoln, Warszawa 2009

Document Type

Publication order reference

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