Michael Taussig
Author · 17 books
Michael Taussig (born 1940) earned a medical degree from the University of Sydney, received his PhD. in anthropology from the London School of Economics and is a professor at Columbia University and European Graduate School. Although he has published on medical anthropology, he is best known for his engagement with Marx's idea of commodity fetishism, especially in terms of the work of Walter Benjamin.
Series
Books
The Nervous System
1991
Law in a Lawless Land
Diary of a Limpieza in Colombia
2003
Mimesis and Alterity
A Particular History of the Senses
1992
The Magic of the State
1996
Beauty and the Beast
2012
What Color Is the Sacred?
2009
The Corn Wolf
2015
Walter Benjamin's Grave
2006
Defacement
Public Secrecy and the Labor of the Negative
1999
My Cocaine Museum
2004
The Devil and Commodity Fetishism in South America
1980
Open City #11
Octo Ate Them All
2000
Shamanism, Colonialism, and the Wild Man
A Study in Terror and Healing
1987
I Swear I Saw This
Drawings in Fieldwork Notebooks, Namely My Own
2011
Mastery of Non-Mastery in the Age of Meltdown
2020
Michael Taussig
Fieldwork Notebooks: 100 Notes, 100 Thoughts: Documenta Series 001 (100 Notes, 100 Thoughts: Documenta Series (13))
2011
Palma Africana
2018
