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  • Beauty and the Beast

    by Michael Taussig ...
    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 sometimes destructive attempts people make to transform their bodies through cosmetic surgery and liposuction. He balances an examination of surgeries meant ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • And the Garden Is You

    Essays on Fieldwork, Writingwork, and Readingwork

    by 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 practice and calling for ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Walter Benjamin's Grave

    by 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 Benjamin’s Grave,” a moving ... Read more

    $37.39 CAD

  • Corpse Magic

    Echoes Active in the Slayer-Slain Nexus

    by 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 agribusiness, in ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • I Swear I Saw This

    Drawings in Fieldwork Notebooks, Namely My Own

    by 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 other creators first ... Read more

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  • Palma Africana

    by 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 the packaged goods in ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Devil and Commodity Fetishism in South America

    by Michael T. Taussig ...
    In this classic book, Michael Taussig explores the social significance of the devil in the folklore of contemporary plantation workers and miners in South America. Grounding his analysis in Marxist theory, Taussig finds that the fetishization of evil, in the image of the devil, mediates the conflict between precapitalist and capitalist modes of objectifying the human condition. He links ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Michael Taussig

    Feldforschungsnotizbücher (dOCUMENTA (13): 100 Notes - 100 Thoughts, 100 Notizen - 100 Gedanken # 001)

    by Michael Taussig ...
    Series Book 1 - dOCUMENTA (13): 100 Notizen - 100 Gedanken
    What is it that makes notebooks so fascinating? Anthropologist Michael Taussig, for whom fieldwork notebooks are an indispensable tool, discusses this very question. A starting point of his investigation is Walter Benjamin, who obsessively filled his own notebooks and was intrigued by their materiality. Roland Barthes, Le Corbusier, and Joan Didion are some of the many other notorious note takers ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • The Magic of the State

    by 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. ... Read more

    $89.99 CAD

  • Mastery of Non-Mastery in the Age of Meltdown

    by Michael Taussig ...
    A professor of anthropology explores how humanity must evolve to survive in the face of environmental collapse.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 ... Read more

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  • The Nervous System

    by 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 emergency leaving no ... Read more

    $96.99 CAD

  • Mimesis and Alterity

    A Particular History of the Senses

    by 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 history of mimesis is ... Read more

    $101.99 CAD