Michael Taussig

Beauty and the Beast

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    They had worked as day laborers picking coffee when the harvest was on,
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    They have a small room to themselves, dimly lit,
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    Inside the homeless shelter I meet some newly arrived refugees.
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    , rich beyond our imagination, rich like kings in ancient fables, a god among men.
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    the ambiguity of sacred power with its fear and awe, its attraction and its repulsion
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    woman, with seasonal death and resurrection
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    ould it be that the beauty of women today echoes those remote times when people worshipped a female deity whose power was expressed in the passing of the seasons? This
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    caption to a color illustration of a flower, a scarlet anemone, in an illustrated version of Frazer’s great book, tells us how “spring flowers spoke to the ancients of the resurrection of their gods, while the fading of the same flowers reminded them of
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    how “spring flowers spoke to the ancients of the resurrection of their gods, while the
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    as with spring flowers succeeding winter?
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