State hegemony rests on ritual invocation of the dead

Evidence

Michael Taussig (1997) characterizes the foundations of the nation-state as magical; state hegemony ultimately rests, he argues, on the circulation of ritual means for invoking the dead. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 258

Categorization

• XREF: Resonates with the ADDENDUM topic of ritual human sacrifice as a state-stabilizer, and with The Lindow Man; also speaks to the reader’s rites-and-infrastructure work.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 258