Michael Taussig is professor of anthropology at Columbia University. He is the author of nine books, including, Shamanism, Colonialism, and the Wild Man; Law in a Lawless Land; and My Cocaine Museum, all published by the University of Chicago Press.
8 Ebooks de Taussig Michael Taussig
Michael Taussig: Palma Africana
"It is the contemporary elixir from which all manner of being emerges, the metamorphic sublime, an alchemist’s dream." So begins Palma Africana, the latest attempt by anthropologist Michael …
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Michael Taussig: Walter Benjamin’s Grave
In September 1940, Walter Benjamin committed suicide in Port Bou on the Spanish-French border when it appeared that he and his travelling partners would be denied passage into Spain in their attempt …
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Michael Taussig: My Cocaine Museum
In this book, a make-believe cocaine museum becomes a vantage point from which to assess the lives of Afro-Colombian gold miners drawn into the dangerous world of cocaine production in the rain fores …
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Michael Taussig: Mastery of Non-Mastery in the Age of Meltdown
For centuries, humans have excelled at mimicking nature in order to exploit it. Now, with the existential threat of global climate change on the horizon, the ever-provocative Michael Taussig asks wha …
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Bernard E. Harcourt & W. J. T. Mitchell: Occupy
Mic check! Mic check! Lacking amplification in Zuccotti Park, Occupy Wall Street protestors addressed one another by repeating and echoing speeches throughout the crowd. In Occupy, W. J. T. Mitchell, …
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Michael Taussig: I Swear I Saw This
I Swear I Saw This records visionary anthropologist Michael Taussig’s reflections on the fieldwork notebooks he kept through forty years of travels in Colombia. Taking as a starting point a drawing h …
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Michael Taussig: What Color Is the Sacred?
Over the past thirty years, visionary anthropologist Michael Taussig has crafted a highly distinctive body of work. Playful, enthralling, and whip-smart, his writing makes ingenious connections betwe …
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Michael Taussig: Shamanism, Colonialism, and the Wild Man
Working with the image of the Indian shaman as Wild Man, Taussig reveals not the magic of the shaman but that of the politicizing fictions creating the effect of the real."This extraordinary boo …
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