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Michael Taussig

Michael T. Taussig (born 3 April 1940 in Sydney) is an Australian anthropologist and professor at Columbia University. He is best known for his engagement with Marx's idea of commodity fetishism, especially in terms of the work of Walter Benjamin. Taussig has also published texts on medical anthropology.

Michael T. Taussig

(1940-04-03) 3 April 1940

Sydney, Australia

Mateo Taussig-Rubbo, Santiago Taussig-Moore, Olivia Taussig-Rees

Berlin Prize (2007)
Guggenheim Fellowship (1998)

University of Sydney
London School of Economics

Columbia University

He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1998[1] and a Berlin Prize in 2007 from the American Academy in Berlin.[2]

The Devil and Commodity Fetishism in South America, 1980,  978-0-8078-4106-8.[3]

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Shamanism, Colonialism, and the Wild Man: A Study in Terror and Healing, 1987,  978-0-226-79013-8.

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The Nervous System, 1992,  978-0-415-90445-2.

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Mimesis and Alterity: A Particular History of the Senses, 1993,  978-0-415-90687-6.

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The Magic of the State, 1997,  978-0-415-91791-9.

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Defacement: Public Secrecy and the Labor of the Negative, 1999,  978-0-8047-3200-0.

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Law in a Lawless Land: Diary of a Limpieza in Colombia, 2003,  978-0-226-79014-5.

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My Cocaine Museum, 2004,  978-0-226-79009-1. See an excerpt.

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Walter Benjamin's Grave, 2006,  978-0-226-79004-6. See an excerpt.

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What Color Is the Sacred?, 2009,  978-0-226-79006-0. See an excerpt.

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I Swear I Saw This: Drawings in Fieldwork Notebooks, Namely My Own, 2011,  978-0-226-78982-8

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Beauty and the Beast, 2012,  9780226789866

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The Corn Wolf, 2015,  9780226310718

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Mastery of Non-Mastery in the Age of Meltdown, 2020  9780226698670

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Speak the Wind (2021) Photographs by ; essay by Michael Taussig. ISBN 978-1-913620-18-9 The photographs document the landscapes and people of the islands of Hormuz, Qeshm, and Hengam, in the Persian Gulf off the south coast of Iran,[4][5] in which Afshar explores "the idea of being possessed by history". Taussig's essay, entitled Winds of History adds context to the photographs.[6]

Hoda Afshar

Taussig Bio page at Columbia University