My Cocaine Museum

by Michael Taussig

Book Overview

In this book, a make-believe cocaine museum becomes a vantage point from which to assess the lives of Afro-Colombian gold miners drawn into the dangerous world of cocaine production in the rain forest of Colombia's Pacific Coast. Although modeled on the famous Gold Museum in Colombia's central bank, the Banco de la Rep blica, Taussig's museum is also a parody aimed at the museum's failure to acknowledge the African slaves who mined the country's wealth...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226790096
• ISBN13: 9780226790091
• Release Date: May 2004
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"