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Michael Taussig

Michael Taussig teaches anthropology at Columbia and writes regularly on Colombia. His books include My Cocaine Museum and Law in a Lawless Land.

Selected bibliography

  • Walter Benjamin’s Grave (2006)
  • My Cocaine Museum (2004)
  • Law in a Lawless Land: Diary of a Limpieza (2003)
  • Defacement: Public Secrecy and the Labor of the Negative (1999)
  • The Magic of the State (1997)
  • Mimesis and Alterity: A Particular Study of the Senses (1993)
  • The Nervous System (1992)
  • Shamanism, Colonialism and the Wild Man: A Study in Terror and Healing (1987)
  • The Devil and Commodity Fetishism in South America (1980)

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