Mi Museo De La Cocaina.
Popayán: Universidad del Cauca, 2013. First Edition. Paperback. 339p., photos, illus., bibl., indices, wrps. NEw. Item #84655
ISBN: 9789587321296
Walking through the Gold Museum is to become vaguely aware of how, for millennia, the mystery of gold has supported the foundations of money throughout the world through myths and stories. This gold, together with silver from Mexico and Peru, was what prepared the capitalist takeoff in Europe, its original accumulation. But it is cocaine or, better, its prohibition imposed by the United States, which shapes the country today. Not to talk about cocaine, not to exhibit it, is to continue the same denial of reality that the museum practices in relation to slavery. Like gold, cocaine is imbued with violence and greed, a shine that stinks of transgression with deep roots in prehistory. Translation of My Cocaine Museum, University of Chicago Press, 2004.
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