Michael Taussig

In a series of intriguing essays ranging over terror, State fetishism, shamanic healing in Latin America, homesickness, and the place of the tactile eye in both magic and modernity, anthropologist Michael Taussig puts into representational practice... Lire la suite

The celebrated anthropologist and author of The Corn Wolf examines the Colombian culture of plastic surgery and its surprising relationship to violence. Drawing on extensive fieldwork in Colombia, Michael Taussig scrutinizes the audacious and... Lire la suite

Dans Palma Africana, l’anthropologue australien Michael Taussig poursuit son étude de la matière et explore la production d’huile de palme en Colombie. Alors que cette dernière envahit tout, des chips au vernis à ongles, et a fait son chemin pour... Lire la suite

In his most ambitious and accomplished work to date, Michael Taussig undertakes a history of mimesis, the practice of imitation, and its relation to alterity, the opposition of Self and Other. Drawing upon such diverse sources as theories of... Lire la suite

Un voyage archéologique au sein du « Musée des obsessions » du célèbre commissaire d'exposition suisse. Lire la suite

Collecting a decade of work from iconic anthropologist and writer Michael Taussig, The Corn Wolf pinpoints a moment of intellectual development for the master stylist, exemplifying the "nervous system" approach to writing and truth that has... Lire la suite

Negli ultimi decenni l'incontro tra arte e antropologia è diventato sempre più intenso e i due campi si sono ritrovati a condividere metodi e pratiche. L'antropologia ha interrogato l'arte rispetto alle forze creative presenti in culture diverse... Lire la suite

Michael Taussig, figure majeure quoique controversée de l'anthropologie anglo-saxonne, s'attache à mettre en évidence la fonction heuristique des croquis et dessins réalisés par l'ethnographe dans ses carnets de notes.

A new collection of essays reflecting on the centrality of writing anthropological practice from one of the discipline’s most influential thinkers. Michael Taussig’s work is known for its critical insights and bold, experimental style. In the eleven... Lire la suite

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, Bernard E. Harcourt, and Michael Taussig take the... Lire la suite

Per secoli, l’umanità ha affinato l’arte di imitare la natura per poterla dominare. Ora, con la minaccia del cambiamento climatico globale all’orizzonte, Michael Taussig si chiede quale funzione possa esercitare all’interno di questa trasformazione... Lire la suite

Set in the enchanted mountain of a spirit-queen presiding over an unnamed, postcolonial country, this ethnographic work of ficto-criticism recreates in written form the shrines by which the dead--notably the fetishized forms of Europe's Others,... Lire la suite

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 between ideas, thinkers, and things. An extended... Lire la suite

Corpse Magic examines beliefs about vengeance the slain magically enact on their killers, focusing on lethal violence in Colombia and the United States. Corpse Magic is a response to the global ubiquity of violence. In this bracing new work, the... Lire la suite

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 what function a newly invigorated mimetic faculty... Lire la suite

In this ambitious and accomplished work, Taussig explores the complex and interwoven concepts of mimesis, the practice of imitation, and alterity, the opposition of Self and Other. The book moves from the nineteenth-century invention of mimetically... Lire la suite