Michael Taussig Forfatter
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I Swear I Saw This: Drawings in Fieldwork Notebooks, Namely My Own (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)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.
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Beauty and the Beast (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)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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Mastery of Non–Mastery in the Age of Meltdown (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Levering: 6 - 9 hverdage -
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Defacement: Public Secrecy and the Labor of the Negative (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)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.
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Palma Africana (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)In his usual incantatory style, Taussig takes on palm oil, one of the most perniciously exploitative commodities in our world today.
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Shamanism, Colonialism, and the Wild Man: A Study in Terror and Healing (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)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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Mimesis and Alterity: A Particular History of the Senses (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Taussig undertakes a history of the mimetic faculty. Using anthropological theory and the ideas of Benjamin, Adorno and Horckheimer the author analyses mimesis across time and cultures.
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The Magic of the State (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)The Magic of the State focuses on the theatre of spirit possession at a Spirit Queen's enchanted mountain where the dead-Blacks and Indians-Europe's fetishized others-pass into the bodies of the living.
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The Nervous System (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)In a series of intriguing essays, Taussig hovers between story-telling and high theory and thus creating strange new modes of critical discourse.
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