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…

In a series of 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…

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…

Begins with a question: Is beauty destined to end in tragedy? Drawing on extensive fieldwork in Colombia, the author scrutinizes the anxious, audacious, and sometimes destructive attempts people make to…

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…

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…

Dash combines sometimes unruly elements in highly controlled processes that nonetheless allow for the operation of chance. -Artforum

This monograph is the first comprehensive overview of the work of N…