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    The Devil and Commodity Fetishism in South America

    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…

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    Walter Benjamin’s Grave

    Michael T. 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…

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    Walter Benjamin’s Grave

    Michael T. 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…

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    My Cocaine Museum

    Michael T. Taussig

    Michael Taussig uses a make-believe Cocaine Museum, which is a parody of the Gold Museum in Colombia’s central bank, to illuminate the largely unacknowledged history of Indian and African Colombian…

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    Shamanism, Colonialism and the Wild Man: A Study in Terror and Healing

    Michael T. Taussig

    Looks at the interaction between civilized and primitive people in Colombia, examines the role of the shaman, and discusses healing practices in the jungle.

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    Law in a Lawless Land: Diary of a Limpieza in Colombia

    Michael T. Taussig

    Offers a penetrating insight into the nature of Colombia’s peril. In a nuanced account of the human consequences of a disintegrating state, the author chronicles two weeks in a small…

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    My Cocaine Museum

    Michael T. Taussig

    Michael Taussig uses a make-believe Cocaine Museum, which is a parody of the Gold Museum in Colombia’s central bank, to illuminate the largely unacknowledged history of Indian and African Colombian…

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    Francis Alys

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    A fully updated edition of the artist’s first comprehensive monograph, more than a decade since its original publication

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    Occupy

    W. J. T. Mitchell,Bernard Harcourt,Michael Taussig,Bernard E. Harcourt,Michael Taussig

    Features three essays that engage with the extraordinary Occupy Wall Street movement that has swept across the world, examining everything from self-immolations in the Middle East to the G8 crackdown…

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    Occupy - Three Inquiries in Disobedience

    W. J. T. Mitchell,Bernard Harcourt,Michael Taussig,Bernard E. Harcourt,Michael Taussig

    Features three essays that engage the extraordinary Occupy movement that has swept across the world, examining everything from self-immolations in the Middle East to the G8 crackdown in Chicago to…

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