National Unity and Potlatch: Genealogical Observations Pertaining to North America’s Accursed Share

Comparative and Continental Philosophy 9 (3):218-229 (2017)
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This paper offers a genealogy of national unity in the United States approached through practices of consumption and punishment. Drawing on the work of Foucault, Mauss, and Bataille, the analysis shows how these practices are mutually determining, how they demonstrate an economy of excess as opposed to one of utility or conservation, and how they depend on and reinforce specific patterns of discursive and emotional coding. The Thanksgiving holiday serves as a privileged site for locating the elements of an apparatus that stretches from the earliest days of colonization to the present, and that operates across diverse political, religious, and ethnic lines.

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