num_pages: 216
description: Set in the enchanted mountain of a spirit-queen presiding over an unnamed, postcolonial country, this ethnographic work of ficto-criticism recreates in written form the shrines by which the dead-notably the fetishized forms of Europe's Others, Indians and Blacks-generate the magical powers of the modern state.
language: English
title: The Magic of the State
titlecomplete: The Magic of the State
genres: Anthropology, Theory, Philosophy, Nonfiction, Sociology, Ethnography
ratings_count: 81
publisher: Routledge