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  • Beauty and the Beast

    de 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 ... Leer más

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  • Corpse Magic

    Echoes Active in the Slayer-Slain Nexus

    de 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 ... Leer más

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  • The Magic of the State

    de 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. ... Leer más

    $64.99 USD

  • And the Garden Is You

    Essays on Fieldwork, Writingwork, and Readingwork

    de 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 ... Leer más

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  • L’arte del non-dominio nell’era dello sfaldamento globale

    de Michael Taussig ...
    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 una facoltà mimetica nuovamente rinvigorita. L’arte del non-dominio nell’era dello sfaldamento globale non è solo una riflessione sulla nostra ... Leer más

    $16.99 USD

  • Mastery of Non-Mastery in the Age of Meltdown

    de 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 a theoretical ... Leer más

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  • Michael Taussig

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

    de Michael Taussig ...
    Series Libro 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 ... Leer más

    $5.99 USD

  • Palma Africana

    de 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 ... Leer más

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  • I Swear I Saw This

    Drawings in Fieldwork Notebooks, Namely My Own

    de 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 ... Leer más

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  • What Color Is the Sacred?

    de 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 intellectual path ... Leer más

    $3.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Corn Wolf

    de 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 theory, thickening ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Mimesis and Alterity

    A Particular History of the Senses

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $73.99 USD