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A Study in Colonialism, and Terror and the Wild Man Healing
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In this classic book, Michael Taussig explores the social significance of the devil in the folklore of contemporary plantation workers and miners in S...
A Particular History of the Senses
First Published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company....
First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company....
Public Secrecy and the Labor of the Negative
Defacement asks what happens when something precious is despoiled. In specifying the human face as the ideal type for thinking through such violation,...
First Published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company....
Diary of a "limpieza" in Colombia
"Colombia is a modern state falling to pieces, wracked by more than half a century of bloody civil war, political conflict, and violence associated wi...
Drawings in Fieldwork Notebooks, Namely My Own
"I Swear I Saw This" records visionary anthropologist Michael Taussig's reflections on the fieldwork notebooks he kept through forty years of travels ...
On the islands in the Strait of Hormuz, off the southern coast of Iran, there is a common belief that the winds can possess a person, bringing illness...
Edited by Laurence Kardish. Text by Laurence Kardish, Kelly Sidley, Michael T. Taussig....
Becoming Palm
Becoming Palm is the outcome of a conversation between two friends, artist Simryn Gill and anthropologist Michael Taussig, addressing the complexities...
Essays on Fieldwork, Writingwork, and Readingwork
"Michael Taussig's works are known not only for their critical insights, but also for their bold and experimental style. In these essays, Taussig find...
A fully updated edition of the artist's first comprehensive monograph, more than a decade since its original publication. Francis Alÿs examines the p...