My cocaine museum /

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 cen...

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Main Author: Taussig, Michael T.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2004.
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Online Access: Full text (Emmanuel users only)
Table of Contents:
  • Gold
  • My cocaine museum
  • Color
  • Heat
  • Wind & weather
  • Rain
  • Boredom
  • Diving
  • Water in water
  • Julio Arboleda's stone
  • Mines
  • Entropy
  • Moonshine
  • The accursed share
  • A dog growls
  • The coast is no longer boring
  • Paramilitary lover
  • Cement & speed
  • Miasma
  • Swamp
  • The right to be lazy
  • Beaches
  • Lightning
  • Bocanegra
  • Stone
  • Evil eye
  • Gorgon
  • Gorgona
  • Islands
  • Underwater mountains
  • Sloth.