What color is the sacred?

Into the image -- The face of world history -- Licensed transgression -- Where stones walk like men -- Color as crime -- Color walks -- The diver -- Could a cat be a whale? -- In the time of lapis lazuli -- Polymorphous magical substance -- Plasma -- A beautiful blue substance flows into me -- The r...

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Main Author: Taussig, Michael T. 1940- (Author)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: Chicago [u.a.] University of Chicago Press 2009
In:Year: 2009
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Color / Meaning / Society
Further subjects:B Color vision
B Color (Philosophy)
B Color psychology
B Color
B Cultural anthropology
B Color guide
B Color symbolism
Online Access: Inhaltsverzeichnis (Verlag)
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Summary:Into the image -- The face of world history -- Licensed transgression -- Where stones walk like men -- Color as crime -- Color walks -- The diver -- Could a cat be a whale? -- In the time of lapis lazuli -- Polymorphous magical substance -- Plasma -- A beautiful blue substance flows into me -- The red butterfly -- Color in the colony -- Administration by bluff -- Walking through fire -- Sailing through color -- Body paint -- The instrument of ethnographic observation -- Color and slavery -- Redeeming indigo -- Opiation of the visual field -- Sex appeal of the inorganic -- Color in Proust -- Crossover men -- Techniques of the body: what we falsely call life -- An hour is not merely an hour -- Cardiac fatigue -- What is the color of the profane? -- Color in coal -- Creature of the lightless depth -- As colors pour from tar -- Colored by weather
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (p. [275] - 285) and index
ISBN:0226790053