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BL
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| Record Number
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581754
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b410973
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| Main Entry
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Taussig, Michael T
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| Title & Author
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Walter Benjamin's grave /\ Michael Taussig
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| Publication Statement
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Chicago :: University of Chicago Press,, 2006
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| Page. NO
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xi, 245 p. :: ill. ;; 23 cm
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| ISBN
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0226790037 (cloth : alk. paper)
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: 0226790045 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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: 9780226790046
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-240) and index
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| Contents
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Walter 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
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| Abstract
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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 20th century's greatest cultural critic
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| Subject
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Anthropology-- Field work
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| Dewey Classification
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301.072/3
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| LC Classification
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GN34.3.F53T38 2006
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