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What Color Is the Sacred?
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 …
Palma Africana
"e;It is the contemporary elixir from which all manner of being emerges, the metamorphic sublime, an alchemist's dream."e; So begins Palma Africana, the latest attempt by …
Esclavitud y libertad en el valle del río Cauca
Este libro fue escrito en el año de 1975 por Anna Rubbo y Michael Taussig, quienes tenían 27 y 29 años respectivamente cuando pasaron quince meses en Puerto Tejada a partir de …
The Corn Wolf
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 …
My Cocaine Museum
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 …
Recipes for Survival
In 1983, when acclaimed Brazilian artist Maria Thereza Alves was an art student at Cooper Union in the United States, she returned to her native country to document the backlands …
Francis Alÿs
A fully updated and expanded edition of the artist's first comprehensive monograph, more than a decade since its original publication Francis Alÿs examines the patterns of various …
Walter Benjamin's Grave
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 …
Defacement
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 …
Mimesis and Alterity
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. …
Michael Taussig
Was macht die Faszination von Notizbüchern aus? Dieser Frage geht der Anthropologe Michael Taussig, für dessen Feldforschungen Notizbücher ein unverzichtbares Instrument …
Culture and Waste
Waste is a key category for understanding cultural value. It is not just the 'bad stuff' we dispose of; it is material we constantly struggle to redeem. Cultures seem to spend as …