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Law in a Lawless Land: Diary of a Limpieza in Columbia by Michael Taussig
My Cocaine Museum by Michael Taussig
Author(s) -
Faulk Karen Ann
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
polar: political and legal anthropology review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.529
H-Index - 27
eISSN - 1555-2934
pISSN - 1081-6976
DOI - 10.1111/j.1555-2934.2008.00027_9.x
Subject(s) - citation , politics , law , media studies , history , art history , sociology , political science
Two of Michael Taussig’s most recent books, My Cocaine Museum and Law in a Lawless Land: Diary of a Limpieza in Colombia, compellingly evoke life and landscape in the Valle del Cauca region of Colombia. They provide an insightful if bleak picture of the inner workings of terror and violence. Each experiments with a different form of writing to engage with questions of the state, history, power, and narration. Synthesizing concerns elaborated in Taussig’s earlier works, these books are innovative in their style and sophisticated in their analytic content