What Color Is the Sacred?
- Contents
- Review Quotes
- Awards

List of Illustrations
Part One Into the Image
1. The Face of World History
2. Licensed Transgression
3. Where Stones Walk like Men
4. Color as Crime
5. Color Walks
6. The Diver
7. Could a Cat Be a Whale? 000
8. In the Time of Lapis Lazuli
9. Polymorphous Magical Substance
10. Plasma
11. A Beautiful Blue Substance Flows into Me
12. The Red Butterfly
Part Two Color in the Colony
13. Administration by Bluff
14. Walking through Fire
15. Sailing through Color
16. Body Paint
17. The Instrument of Ethnographic Observation
18. Color and Slavery
19. Redeeming Indigo
20. Opiation of the Visual Field
21. Sex Appeal of the Inorganic
Part Three Color in Proust
22. Crossover Men
23. Techniques of the Body: What We Falsely Call Life
24. An Hour is Not Merely an Hour
25. Cardiac Fatigue
26. What Is the Color of the Profane? 000
Part Four Color in Coal
27. Creature of the Lightless Depth
28. As Colors Pour from Tar
29. Colored by Weather
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
University of Warwick: The Warwick Prize for Writing
Finalist
Anthropology: Cultural and Social Anthropology
Geography: Environmental Geography
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