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Defacement asks what happens when something precious is despoiled. In specifying the human face as the ideal type for thinking through such violation, this book raises the issue of secrecy as the depth that seems to surface with the tearing of surface.
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Defacement, Michael Taussig
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- 1999
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- Title
- Defacement
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Michael Taussig
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Publisher
- 1999
- Format
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 0804732000
- ISBN13
- 9780804732000
- Description
- Defacement asks what happens when something precious is despoiled. In specifying the human face as the ideal type for thinking through such violation, this book raises the issue of secrecy as the depth that seems to surface with the tearing of surface.