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  • MIMESIS AND ALTERITY
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    MIMESIS AND ALTERITY
    MICHAEL TAUSSIG
    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 capacious machines, such as the camera, to the fable of colonial ‘first contact’ and the alleged mimetic power of ‘primitives’. Twe...

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  • MIMESIS AND ALTERITY
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    MIMESIS AND ALTERITY
    MICHAEL TAUSSIG
    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 Benjamin, Adorno and Horckheimer, research on the Cuna Indians, and theories of colonialism and postcolonialism, Taussig shows that the hi...

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  • THE MAGIC OF THE STATE
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    THE MAGIC OF THE STATE
    MICHAEL TAUSSIG
    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, Indians and Blacks--generate the magical powers of the modern state. ...

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  • THE NERVOUS SYSTEM
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    THE NERVOUS SYSTEM
    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 a curious type of engaged writing. Based on a paranoiac vision of social control and its understanding as in a permanent state of e...

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  • CORPSE MAGIC
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    CORPSE MAGIC
    MICHAEL TAUSSIG
    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 influential anthropologist Michael Taussig puts killings in Colombia, by gangs and guerrillas, police and the military, and agents of ...

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  • AND THE GARDEN IS YOU
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    AND THE GARDEN IS YOU
    MICHAEL TAUSSIG
    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 essays in this new collection, Taussig reflects on the act of writing itself, demonstrating its importance for anthropological p...

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  • MASTERY OF NON-MASTERY IN THE AGE OF MELTDOWN
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    MASTERY OF NON-MASTERY IN THE AGE OF MELTDOWN
    MICHAEL TAUSSIG
    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 might exert along with such change. Mastery of Non-Mastery in the Age of Meltdown is not solely a reflection on our condition but also...

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  • PALMA AFRICANA
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    PALMA AFRICANA
    MICHAEL TAUSSIG
    “It is the contemporary elixir from which all manner of being emerges, the metamorphic sublime, an alchemist’s dream.” So begins Palma Africana, the latest attempt by anthropologist Michael Taussig to make sense of the contemporary moment. But to what elixir does he refer?   Palm oil. Saturating everything from potato chips to nail polish, palm oil has made its way into half of...

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  • THE CORN WOLF
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    THE CORN WOLF
    MICHAEL TAUSSIG
    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 characterized his trajectory. Pressured by the permanent state of emergency that imbues our times, this approach marries storytelling with ...

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  • OCCUPY
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    OCCUPY
    W. J. T. MITCHELL / BERNARD E. HARCOURT / MICHAEL TAUSSIG
    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 protestors’ lead and perform their own resonant call-and-response, playing off of each other in three essays that engage the extra...

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  • BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
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    BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
    MICHAEL TAUSSIG
    Beauty and the Beast begins with the question: Is beauty destined to end in tragedy? Drawing on extensive fieldwork in Colombia, Michael Taussig scrutinizes the anxious, audacious, and sometimes destructive attempts people make to transform their bodies through cosmetic surgery and liposuction. He balances an examination of surgeries meant to enhance an individual’s beauty with...

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  • I SWEAR I SAW THIS
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    I SWEAR I SAW THIS
    MICHAEL TAUSSIG
    I Swear I Saw This records visionary anthropologist Michael Taussig’s reflections on the fieldwork notebooks he kept through forty years of travels in Colombia. Taking as a starting point a drawing he made in Medellin in 2006—as well as its caption, “I swear I saw this”—Taussig considers the fieldwork notebook as a type of modernist literature and the place where writers and ot...

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  • WHAT COLOR IS THE SACRED?
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    WHAT COLOR IS THE SACRED?
    MICHAEL TAUSSIG
    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 meditation on the mysteries of color and the fascination they provoke, What Color Is the Sacred? is the next step on Taussig’s remarkable...

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  • WALTER BENJAMIN'S GRAVE
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    WALTER BENJAMIN'S GRAVE
    MICHAEL TAUSSIG
    In September 1940, Walter Benjamin committed suicide in Port Bou on the Spanish-French border when it appeared that he and his travelling partners would be denied passage into Spain in their attempt to escape the Nazis. In 2002, one of anthropology’s—and indeed today’s—most distinctive writers, Michael Taussig, visited Benjamin’s grave in Port Bou. The result is “Walter Benjami...

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  • MY COCAINE MUSEUM
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    MY COCAINE MUSEUM
    MICHAEL TAUSSIG
    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 dangerous world of cocaine production in the rain forest of Colombia's Pacific Coast. Although modeled on the famous Gold Museum in Colombia's central bank, the Banco de la República, Taussig's museum is also a parody aimed at the museu...

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  • SHAMANISM, COLONIALISM, AND THE WILD MAN
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    SHAMANISM, COLONIALISM, AND THE WILD MAN
    MICHAEL TAUSSIG
    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 the effect of the real. "This extraordinary book . . . will encourage ever more critical and creative explorations."—Fernando Coronil, [I]American Journal of Sociology[/I] "Taussig has brought a formidable collection of data from ar...

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