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Books by Michael Taussig
  | | The Mastery of Non-Mastery in the Age of Meltdown(1st Edition) by Michael Taussig Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 2020 by University Of Chicago Press ISBN-13: 978-0-226-69867-0, ISBN: 0-226-69867-X "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 a theoretical effort to reckon with the impulses that have ..." |
 | | What Color Is the Sacred?(Illustrated) by Michael Taussig Paperback, 304 Pages, Published 2009 by University Of Chicago Press ISBN-13: 978-0-226-79006-0, ISBN: 0-226-79006-1 "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 intellectual path. Following his interest in magic and su ..." |
 | | Defacement(1st Edition) Public Secrecy and the Labor of the Negative by Michael Taussig Paperback, 326 Pages, Published 1999 by Stanford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8047-3200-0, ISBN: 0-8047-3200-0 "Defacement asks what happens when something precious is despoiled. It begins with the notion that such activity is attractive in its very repulsion, and that it creates something sacred even in the most secular of societies and circumstances. In specifying the human face as the ideal type for thinking through such violation, this book raises the issue of secrecy as the depth that seems to surface with the tearing of surface. This surfac ..." |
 | | The Magic of the State(1st Edition) by Michael Taussig Paperback, 216 Pages, Published 1997 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-0-415-91791-9, ISBN: 0-415-91791-3 "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." |
 | | Mimesis and Alterity(1st Edition) A Particular History of the Senses by Michael Taussig Paperback, 299 Pages, Published 1993 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-0-415-90687-6, ISBN: 0-415-90687-3 "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 deeply tied ..." |
 | | Shamanism, Colonialism, and the Wild Man(1st Edition) A Study in Terror and Healing by Michael Taussig Paperback, 538 Pages, Published 1991 by University Of Chicago Press ISBN-13: 978-0-226-79013-8, ISBN: 0-226-79013-4 "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 arcane literary, journalistic, and biographical sources to bea ..." |
 | | Law in a Lawless Land(Updated) Diary of a Limpieza in Colombia by Michael Taussig Paperback, 222 Pages, Published 2005 by University Of Chicago Press ISBN-13: 978-0-226-79014-5, ISBN: 0-226-79014-2 "A modern nation in a state of total disorder, Colombia is an international flashpoint—wracked by more than half a century of civil war, political conflict, and drug-trade related violence—despite a multibillion dollar American commitment that makes it the third-largest recipient of U.S. foreign aid. Law in a Lawless Land offers a rare and penetrating insight into the nature of Colombia's present peril. In a nuanced account of the human ..." |
 | | Palma Africana(1st Edition) by Michael Taussig Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2018 by University Of Chicago Press ISBN-13: 978-0-226-51613-4, ISBN: 0-226-51613-X "“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 our supermarkets. By 2020, world prod ..." |
 | | I Swear I Saw This(1st Edition) Drawings in Fieldwork Notebooks, Namely My Own by Michael Taussig Paperback, 173 Pages, Published 2011 by University Of Chicago Press ISBN-13: 978-0-226-78983-5, ISBN: 0-226-78983-7 ""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 work out the imaginative logic of d ..." |
 | | My Cocaine Museum(1st Edition) (Carpenter Lectures) by Michael Taussig Paperback, 336 Pages, Published 2004 by University Of Chicago Press ISBN-13: 978-0-226-79009-1, ISBN: 0-226-79009-6 "In this book, a make-believe cocaine museum becomes a disturbing 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 Republica, Taussig's "museum" is also a parody aimed at the museum's lack of acknowledgment of the African slave ..." |
 | | The Nervous System(1st Edition) by Michael Taussig Paperback, 220 Pages, Published 1991 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-0-415-90445-2, ISBN: 0-415-90445-5 "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 room for contemplation between signs and ..." |
 | | Occupy Three Inquiries in Disobedience (TRIOS) by Bernard E. Harcourt, Michael Taussig, Wjt Mitchell Paperback, 152 Pages, Published 2013 by University Of Chicago Press ISBN-13: 978-0-226-04274-9, ISBN: 0-226-04274-X ""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 extraordinary Occupy movement that has swept across the world ..." |
 | | Law in a Lawless Land(1st Edition) Diary of a Limpieza in a Colombia by Michael Taussig Hardcover, 256 Pages, Published 2003 by The New Press ISBN-13: 978-1-56584-863-4, ISBN: 1-56584-863-2 "The town needs to get 300 coffins ready. Heads Up! The priest better be ready to work overtime. —flier from Colombian paramilitaries announcing their arrivalIn January 2003, U.S. troops were sent to Colombia to train army units engaged in a bloody civil war, deepening a multibillion-dollar American commitment that makes that country the third-largest recipient of U.S. foreign aid.Despite the potential for disaster embodied in the U.S.’s ..." |
 | | Devil and Commodity Fetishism in South America by Michael Taussig Paperback, 264 Pages, Published 1983 by University Of N. Carolina Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8078-4106-8, ISBN: 0-8078-4106-4 "My aim in this book is to elicit the social significance of the devil in the folklore of contemporary plantation workers and miners in South America. The devil is a stunningly apt symbol of the alienation experienced by peasants as they enter the ranks of the proletariat, and it is largely in terms of that experience that I have cast my interpretation. The historical and ethnographic context lead me to ask: What is the relationship betw ..." |
 | | Beauty and the Beast by Michael Taussig Hardcover, 192 Pages, Published 2012 by University Of Chicago Press ISBN-13: 978-0-226-78985-9, ISBN: 0-226-78985-3 "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 an often overlooked counterpart, surgeries performed—often ..." |
 | | Walter Benjamin's Grave(Updated) by Michael Taussig Paperback, 258 Pages, Published 2006 by University Of Chicago Press ISBN-13: 978-0-226-79004-6, ISBN: 0-226-79004-5 "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 essay about the cemetery, eyewitness ac ..." |
 | | The Corn Wolf(1st Edition) by Michael Taussig Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2015 by University Of Chicago Press ISBN-13: 978-0-226-31085-5, ISBN: 0-226-31085-X "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 theory, thickening spiraling analysis with ethnography and p ..." |
 | | Beauty and the Beast(1st Edition) by Michael Taussig Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 2012 by University Of Chicago Press ISBN-13: 978-0-226-78986-6, ISBN: 0-226-78986-1 ""Beauty and the Beast" begins with a 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 an often overlooked counterpart, surgeries performed - ofte ..." |
 | | To Dare Imagining(1st Edition) Rojava Revolution by Dilar Dirik, Michael Taussig, David Levi Strauss, Peter Lamborn Wilson, Murat Bay, David Graeber, Saleh Muslim, Newsha Tavakolian, Bill Weinberg, Havin Güneser, Evren Kocabiçak, Abdullah Öcalan, Pinar Ögünç, Nazan Üstündag, Evren Kocabiã§Ak, Abdullah ÃCalan Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 2016 by Autonomedia ISBN-13: 978-1-57027-312-4, ISBN: 1-57027-312-X "Preface, The Editors; Hope in Rojava, David Levi Strauss; Syria's Kurdish Revolution: The Anarchist Element and the Challenge of Solidarity, Bill Weinberg; Why Is the World Ignoring the Revolutionary Kurds in Syria?, David Graeber; No. This Is a Genuine Revolution, David Graeber & Pinar Ögünç; Abdullah Öcalan, Peter Lamborn Wilson; Öcalan's Angels, Newsha Tavakolian; No Miracles at Work, Havin Güneser; A Revolution of Life, Sale ..." |
 | | Trios Ser. Occupy : Three Inquiries in Disobedience by Michael Taussig, Bernard E. Harcourt 168 Pages, Published 2013 by University Of Chicago Press ISBN-13: 978-0-226-04288-6, ISBN: 0-226-04288-X "... and political elites, that they served to redistribute massive wealth over the past forty years and concentrate it at the very top of the socioeconomic pyramid. The coupling of those ideologies enabled, rather than resisted, the disproportionate accumulation of capital. In this sense, those who persistently have pushed conventional political ideologies onto the Occupy movement—fellow travelers like Slavoj Zizek or Raymond Lotta ..." |
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