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Occupy (Book)

Bernard E. Harcourt (Author), W. J. T. Mitchell (Author), W. J. T. Harcourt Mitchell (Author), MITCHELL W J T HARCOURT BERNA (Author), Michael Taussig (Author)

Features three essays that engage with the extraordinary Occupy Wall Street movement that has swept across the world, examining everything from self-immolations in the Middle East to the G8 crackdown in Chicago to the many protest signs still visible worldwide.

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Occupy (Book)

Bernard E. Harcourt (Author), W. J. T. Mitchell (Author), W. J. T. Harcourt Mitchell (Author), MITCHELL W J T HARCOURT BERN (Author), MITCHELL W J T HARCOURT BERNA (Author), Michael Taussig (Author)

Features three essays that engage the extraordinary Occupy movement that has swept across the world, examining everything from self-immolations in the Middle East to the G8 crackdown in Chicago to the many protest signs still visible worldwide.

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Beauty and the Beast (Book)

Michael Taussig (Author), TAUSSIG MICHAEL (Author)

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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Beauty and the Beast (Book)

Michael Taussig (Author), TAUSSIG MICHAEL (Author)

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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I Swear I Saw This (Book)

Michael Taussig (Author), TAUSSIG MICHAEL (Author)

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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I Swear I Saw This (Book)

Michael Taussig (Author), TAUSSIG MICHAEL (Author)

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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Devil and Commodity Fetishism in South America (Book)

Michael Taussig (Author)

Exploring the social significance of the devil in the folklore of contemporary plantation workers and miners in South America, the author finds that the fetishization of evil, in the image of the devil, mediates the conflict between precapitalist and capitalist modes of [...]

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What Color Is the Sacred? (Book)

Michael Taussig (Author)

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What Color Is the Sacred? (Book)

Michael Taussig (Author), Michael T. Taussig (Author), TAUSSIG MICHAEL (Author)

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Sympathiezauber (Book)

Michael Taussig (Author), Michael Neumann (Editor), Anja Schwarz (Editor)

"Sympathiezauber" vereint drei Dinge: einen Gegenstand kulturanthropologischer Forschungen, einen Modus körperlich fundierter Erfahrungen und einen Schreibstil. Allen drei Dingen widmet sich die Ethnographie Michael Taussigs. Michael Taussig gehört spätestens seit seiner [...]

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Michael Taussig (E-book)

Michael Taussig (Author)

"Was macht die Faszination von Notizbüchern aus? Dieser Frage geht der Anthropologe Michael Taussig, für dessen Feldforschungen Notizbücher ein unverzichtbares Instrument darstellen, in seinem Essay auf den Grund. Im Zentrum seiner Untersuchung steht [...]

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My Cocaine Museum (Book)

Taussig (Author), Michael Taussig (Author), Michael T. Taussig (Author)

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 Colombias Pacific Coast. Although modeled on the famous Gold Museum in [...]

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Law in a Lawless Land (Book)

Michael Taussig (Author), Michael T. Taussig (Author), TAUSSIG MICHAEL T (Author)

A modern nation in a state of total disorder, Colombia is an international flashpoint--wracked by more than half a century of civil war, political conflict, and drug-trade related violence--despite a multibillion dollar American commitment that makes it the third-largest [...]

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Shamanism, Colonialism, and the Wild Man (Book)

Michael Taussig (Author)

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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Nervous System (Book)

Michael Taussig (Author), Michael T. Taussig (Author)

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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