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Overview : In his most ambitious and accomplished work to date, Michael Taussig undertakes a history of mimesis, the practice of imitation, and its rel... Read More
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Overview : In this classic book, Michael Taussig explores the social significance of the devil in the folklore of contemporary plantation workers and m... Read More
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Overview : Set in the enchanted mountain of a spirit-queen presiding over an unnamed, postcolonial country, this ethnographic work of ficto-criticism r... Read More
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Overview : 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 ... Read More
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Overview : Beauty and the Beast begins with the question: Is beauty destined to end in tragedy? Drawing on extensive fieldwork in Colombia, Michael Tau... Read More
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Overview : In a series of intriguing essays ranging over terror, State fetishism, shamanic healing in Latin America, homesickness, and the place of the... Read More
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Overview : In September 1940, Walter Benjamin committed suicide in Port Bou on the Spanish-French border when it appeared that he and his travelling pa... Read More
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Overview : Michael Polanyi was one of the great figures of European intellectual life in the 20th century. A highly acclaimed physical chemist in the f... Read More
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Overview : A modern nation in a state of total disorder, Colombia is an international flashpoint-wracked by more than half a century of civil war, poli... Read More
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Overview : Over the past thirty years, visionary anthropologist Michael Taussig has crafted a highly distinctive body of work. Playful, enthralling, an... Read More
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Overview : For centuries, humans have excelled at mimicking nature in order to exploit it. Now, with the existential threat of global climate change on... Read More
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Overview : Defacement asks what happens when something precious is despoiled. It begins with the notion that such activity is attractive in its very re... Read More
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Overview : 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 c... Read More
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Overview : A new collection of essays reflecting on the centrality of writing anthropological practice from one of the discipline's most influential th... Read More
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Overview : I Swear I Saw This records visionary anthropologist Michael Taussig's reflections on the fieldwork notebooks he kept through forty years of ... Read More
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