Defacement : public secrecy and the labor of the negative /

"Defacement asks what happens when something precious is despoiled. It begins with the notion that such activity is attractive in its very repulsion, and that it creates something sacred even in the most secular of societies and circumstances. In specifying the human face as the ideal type for...

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Huvudupphovsman: Taussig, Michael T.
Materialtyp: Printed Book
Publicerad: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 1999.
Ämnen:
Ethnology
Secrecy > Cross-cultural studies.
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520 8 |a This surfacing is made all the more subtle and ingenious, not to mention everyday, by the deliberately partial exposures involved in "the public secret" - defined as what is generally known but, for one reason or another, cannot easily be articulated."--BOOK JACKET. 
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