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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 loomin...

A picture book to be shared and savored by both children and adults: a journey into a wondrous world colored by the stories we might choose to tell about it.A full moon after a wasp attack, poppies from a train, panning for gold in the River Cesecito, a bountiful pumpkin harvest . . . . Postcards for Mia is a joyful collection of hand-drawn and -painted postcards sent by anthropologist Michael Taussig to his granddaughter, Mia. From airports i...

Dash combines sometimes unruly elements in highly controlled processes that nonetheless allow for the operation of chance." -ArtforumThis monograph is the first comprehensive overview of the work of N. Dash (born 1980), exploring the paintings, drawings and photography of this New York- and New Mexico-based American artist. N. Dash uses natural and manmade materials such as earth, pigments, graphite, fabric, string and found objects to constru...

This monograph is the first comprehensive overview of the work of N. Dash, exploring the paintings, drawings and photography of this New York and New Mexico based American artist. N. Dash uses natural as well as man-made materials such as earth, pigments, graphite, fabric, string, and found objects to construct conscious and intuitive abstractions, which draw on bodily movements and energy meridians, ecological systems, and other subtle or int...

For a long time, we humans have excelled in mimicking nature with the goal of exploiting it. Now, with the existential threat of global climate change on the horizon, the ever-provocative Michael Taussig asks what it would take to change ourselves so as to save our world. Acknowledging the possibility of collapse and our all-too-human impotence in the face of accelerating disaster, this book is not solely a reflection on our tragic condition b...

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La bellezza e la bestia si apre con una domanda: la bellezza è destinata a finire in tragedia? L'antropologo Michael Taussig, con l'attenzione e l'acume teorico che lo contraddistinguono, esamina gli sconsiderati, audaci e alle volte distruttivi tentativi intrapresi per trasformare il corpo attraverso la chirurgia estetica. Attingendo dalla lunga esperienza sul campo in Colombia, Taussig unisce a un'analisi della chirurgia destinata ad accresc...

»Sympathiezauber« vereint drei Dinge: einen Gegenstand kulturanthropologischer Forschungen, einen Modus körperlich fundierter Erfahrungen und einen Schreibstil. Allen drei Dingen widmet sich die Ethnographie Michael Taussigs. Michael Taussig gehört spätestens seit seiner klassisch gewordenen Studie über Mimesis und Alterität zu den wichtigsten und inspirierendsten Ethnologen unserer Gegenwart. Seine Arbeiten, die immer wieder zu ihren anfängl...

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 production w...

Palma africana represents the latest attempt by anthropologist Michael Taussig to make sense of the threat to life, human and nonhuman, that characterizes the contemporary moment. In Colombia, where Taussig has worked for decades, palm oil plantations are spreading in areas that were once cornucopias of animal, bird, and plant life. Deforestation and habitat loss are the first effects."--

«L'obiettivo di questo libro è cogliere il significato sociale del diavolo nel folklore dei lavoratori salariati delle piantagioni e dei minatori nel Sudamerica contemporaneo. Il diavolo è un simbolo sorprendentemente preciso dell'alienazione che i contadini esperiscono quando entrano nelle fila del proletariato. Qual è la relazione tra l'immagine del diavolo e lo sviluppo capitalista? Quali contraddizioni dell'esperienza sociale sono mediate ...

Anthropologist Michael Taussig portrays the postmodern state in terms of spirit possession. This unusual book of ficto-criticism begins with a conversation with the spirit queen as to the nourishment of the state by the dead--notably the spirits of those whose blood was spilled during the European conquest and the anti-colonial Wars of Independence. Taussig describes how through theaters of ecstasy, composed of fragments of the great story tha...

Originally published: 1993. With new preface.

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Originally published: 1993. With new preface.

Defacement asks what happens when something precious is despoiled. 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.

Records visionary anthropologist Michael Taussig's reflections on the fieldwork notebooks he kept through forty years of travels in Colombia. This title exhibits Taussig's characteristic verve and intellectual audacity, that is combined with a revelatory sense of intimacy.

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 transform their bodies through cosmetic surgery and liposuction.

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