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The
anthropologist Michael Taussig provides a detailed and thoughful
narrative on the cultural phenomena of public secrecy and Hegel's "labor
of the negative," drawing inspiration from an impressive range of
sources both new and old. This is a book on the theory and practice of
unmasking, as a cultural practice that both contains and sustains the
sacred in its ever-slippery transition back and forth between explicit
cultural knowledge and public secrecy. In "unmasking unmasking" (to
borrow a Taussigian metalogism) via a lively engagement with the ideas
of both critical theorists (Nietsche, Benjamin, Canetti) and
ethnologists, we learn that public secrecy can be the most crucial - if
the most rarefied - form of social knowledge. In the book's last
section, we recognize Uncle Mike as the little child in "The Emperor's
New Clothes," who naively but urgently challenges us to see how that
film of secrecy - behind which social life is all-too-often lived with
perfect complicity - actually works its way into the making and
unmaking of meaning.
Taussig lecture vid
Michael Taussig another lecture
https://ahtaitay.wordpress.com/2017/09/04/how-did-the-word-ass-become-a-word-for-buttocks/
fascinating - difference between Sumerian Origin of Ass as Donkey and the Proto-Indo-European origin of Ass as Backside!!
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