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Pursuing an adventure that is part ethnography, part autobiography, and part cultural criticism refracted through the object that is Walter Benjamin’s grave, Taussig, with this collection, provides his own literary memorial to the ...
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... 0226790045 D ANCING ON WALTER BENJAMIN'S grave , in this book , Michael Taussig is in some ways his reincar- nation ; born in Sydney in 1940 , the same year that Benjamin , trying to escape the Nazis , died in Port Bou , on the edge of ...
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In this book, a make-believe cocaine museum becomes a vantage point from which to assess the lives of Afro-Colombian gold miners drawn into the dangerous world of cocaine production in the rain forest of Colombia's Pacific Coast.
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His ultimate goal is to undo his readers’ sense of control and engender what he calls “mastery of non-mastery.” This unique book developed out of Taussig’s work with peasant agriculture and his artistic practice, which brings ...
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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.
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"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.
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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 ...
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A glance at the chapter titles—such as “The Stories Things Tell” or “Iconoclasm Dictionary”—along with his zany drawings, testifies to the resonant sensibility of these works, which lope like the corn wolf through the boundaries ...
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Law in a Lawless Land offers a rare and penetrating insight into the nature of Colombia's present peril.