michael taussig

A new collection of essays reflecting on the centrality of writing anthropological practice from one of the discipline’s most influential thinkers.  

A new collection of essays reflecting on the centrality of writing anthropological practice from one of the discipline’s most influential thinkers.  

"I Swear I Saw This" records visionary anthropologist Michael Taussig's reflections on the fieldwork notebooks he kept through forty years of travels

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

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 his usual incantatory style, Taussig takes on palm oil, one of the most perniciously exploitative commodities in our world today.

"Beauty and the Beast" begins with a question: Is beauty destined to end in tragedy? Drawing on extensive fieldwork in Colombia, Michael Taussig scrut

Set in the enchanted mountain of a spirit-queen presiding over an unnamed, postcolonial country, this ethnographic work of ficto-criticism recreates i

In a series of intriguing essays, Taussig hovers between story-telling and high theory and thus creating strange new modes of critical discourse.

Offers a penetrating insight into the nature of Colombia's peril. In a nuanced account of the human consequences of a disintegrating state, the author

Originally published: 1993. With new preface.

Records visionary anthropologist Michael Taussig's reflections on the fieldwork notebooks he kept through forty years of travels in Colombia. This tit

A meditation on the mysteries of color and the fascination they provoke. It uses color to explore further dimensions of what the author calls 'the bod

Looks at the interaction between civilized and primitive people in Colombia, examines the role of the shaman, and discusses healing practices in the j

“It is the contemporary elixir from which all manner of being emerges, the metamorphic sublime, an alchemist’s dream.” So begins Palma Africana, the l

"Beauty and the Beast" begins with a question: Is beauty destined to end in tragedy? Drawing on extensive fieldwork in Colombia, Michael Taussig scrut

A meditation on the mysteries of color and the fascination they provoke. It uses color to explore further dimensions of what the author calls 'the bod

Taussig undertakes a history of the mimetic faculty. Using anthropological theory and the ideas of Benjamin, Adorno and Horckheimer the author analyse