What color is the sacred? / Michael Taussig.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-285) and index.

Into the image -- The face of world history -- Licensed transgression -- Where stones walk like men -- Color as crime -- Color walks -- The diver -- Could a cat be a whale? -- In the time of lapis lazuli -- Polymorphous magical substance -- Plasma -- A beautiful blue substance flows into me -- The red butterfly -- Color in the colony -- Administration by bluff -- Walking through fire -- Sailing through color -- Body paint -- The instrument of ethnographic observation -- Color and slavery -- Redeeming indigo -- Opiation of the visual field -- Sex appeal of the inorganic -- Color in Proust -- Crossover men -- Techniques of the body : what we falsely call life -- An hour is not merely an hour -- Cardiac fatigue -- What is the color of the profane? -- Color in coal -- Creature of the lightless depth -- As colors pour from tar -- Colored by weather.