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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 danger...
Beauty and the Beast begins with the question: Is beauty destined to end in tragedy? Drawing on extensive fieldwork in Colombia, Michael Taussig scrut...
A Particular History of the Senses
In this ambitious and accomplished work, Taussig explores the complex and interwoven concepts of mimesis, the practice of imitation, and alterity, the...
A Study in Colonialism, and Terror and the Wild Man Healing
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For centuries, humans have excelled at mimicking nature in order to exploit it. Now, with the existential threat of global climate change on the horiz...
In this classic book, Michael Taussig explores the social significance of the devil in the folklore of contemporary plantation workers and miners in S...
Set in the enchanted mountain of a spirit-queen presiding over an unnamed, postcolonial country, this ethnographic work of ficto-criticism recreates i...
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 ...
Over the past thirty years, visionary anthropologist Michael Taussig has crafted a highly distinctive body of work. Playful, enthralling, and whip-sma...
In September 1940, Walter Benjamin committed suicide in Port Bou on the Spanish-French border when it appeared that he and his travelling partners wou...
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
A modern nation in a state of total disorder, Colombia is an international flashpoint—wracked by more than half a century of civil war, political co...
Mimesis: the idea of imitation. Alterity: the idea of difference, the opposition of Self and Other. In his most accomplished work to date, Michael Tau...
"I Swear I Saw This" records visionary anthropologist Michael Taussig's reflections on the fieldwork notebooks he kept through forty years of travels ...
A picture book to be shared and savored by both children and adults: a journey into a wondrous world colored by the stories we might choose to tell ab...
“It is the contemporary elixir from which all manner of being emerges, the metamorphic sublime, an alchemist’s dream.” So begins Palma Africana,...
A Study in Terror and Healing
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 th...
Three Inquiries in Disobedience
Mic check! Mic check! Lacking amplification in Zuccotti Park, Occupy Wall Street protestors addressed one another by repeating and echoing speeches th...
In a series of intriguing essays ranging over terror, State fetishism, shamanic healing in Latin America, homesickness, and the place of the tactile e...
In the vein of his books "The""Nervous System "and "Walter Benjamin s "Grave, "The Corn Wolf "presents a collection of essays that capture well Michae...
Edited by Laurence Kardish. Text by Laurence Kardish, Kelly Sidley, Michael T. Taussig....
Essays on Fieldwork, Writingwork, and Readingwork
A new collection of essays reflecting on the centrality of writing anthropological practice from one of the discipline’s most influential thinkers. ...
Shifting Shifting
Text by Russel Storer, Jessica Morgan, Michael Taussig....
Defacement asks what happens when something precious is despoiled. It begins with the notion that such activity is attractive in its very repulsion, a...
Diary of a "limpieza" in Colombia
Becoming Palm
Becoming Palm is the outcome of a conversation between two friends, artist Simryn Gill and anthropologist Michael Taussig, addressing the complexities...
Echoes Active in the Slayer-Slain Nexus
"Michael Taussig's new book, Corpse Magic, is animated by the ubiquity of violence across the world. Focusing on state-sanctioned violence in Colombia...
The Place of Stone
Accompanying her forthcoming New Museum solo exhibition, this book surveys the recent work of Turkish artist Asli Cavusoglu (born 1982), who works in ...
Provides a comprehensive analysis of the new super splitting laws to guide lawyers, accountants, trustees and financial advisers through concepts of s...