M Taussig
Biographic Data
| ID | 24795 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M Taussig |
| GIVEN NAMES | M |
| FAMILY NAME | Taussig |
| SIGNATURE | TAUSSIG M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Columbia University |
| ORCID | 0009-0000-9351-2678 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 55 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1347 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 55 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1968 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 15 |
I Swear I Saw This: Drawings In Fieldwork Notebooks, Namely My Own
This is a drawing in my notebook of some people I saw lying down at the entrance to a freeway tunnel in Medellin in July 2006. There were even people lying in the pitchblack tunnel. It was 1:30 in the afternoon.
The Ashokan Reservoir
Desfiguração
Este texto é uma tradução parcial da primeira parte do livro de Michael Taussig, Defacement: Public Secrecy and the Labour of the Negative (1999). A tradução traz uma seção inédita ao texto, além de ajustes realizados pelo próprio autor, duas décadas depois da primeira publicação
As estórias que as coisas contam e por que elas contam: Tradução por Felipe Neis Araujo
Tradução de "The Stories Things Tell and Why They Tell Them", de Michael Taussig, feita por Felipe Neis Araujo. O original está disponível no livro "The Corn Wolf". Taussig, Michael. 2015. The Stories Things Tell and Why They Tell Them. In The Corn Wolf. Chicago e Londres: University of Chicago Press, 15-30
Would a Shaman Help
Previous articleNext article FreeWould a Shaman Help?Michael TaussigMichael Taussig Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMore30 March 2020A friend in the Midwest asks if a shaman could help in the present crisis? Given presidential grandstanding and the run on toilet paper and guns, it seems like a…
Shamanism, Colonialism, and the Wild Man: A Study in Terror and Healing
Working with the image of the Indian shaman as Wild Man, reveals not the magic of the shaman but that of the politicizing fictions creating the effect of the real. This extraordinary book . . . will encourage ever more critical and creative explorations. Fernando Coronil, [I]American Journal of Sociology[/I] Taussig has brought a formidable collection of data from arcane literary, journalistic, and biographical sources to bear on . . . questions …
Nypd Blues: Tradução de Taussig, Michael. “Nypd Blues”. In: Walter Benjamin’s Grave. Chicago: Uiversity of Chicago Press, 2006
Quando George W. Bush veio para a cidade para a Convenção Nacional Republicana de 2004, o Departamento de Polícia da Cidade de Nova Iorque (New York City Police Department) - conhecido como NYP, ou “o Melhor de Nova Iorque (e hoje o Mais Corajoso)” - recolheu milhares de pessoas que protestavam das ruas dia após dia, realizando grandes arrastões, apesar da maior parte das pessoas não estarem realizando nenhuma atividade ilegal. Isso foi confirmad…
Unpacking My Library: An Experiment in the Technique of Awakening
Sympathetic Magic in a Post-Colonial Age
Palma Africana: A Novel
Michael Taussig's *Palma Africana: A Novel* delves into the complex and often brutal history of oil palm cultivation in Colombia. Through a blend of fiction, ethnography, and historical analysis, Taussig explores the social, economic, and environmental consequences of this industry, tracing its roots in colonial exploitation and its ongoing impact on local communities. The novel examines themes of violence, displacement, ecological devastation, a…
Viscerality, faith, and skepticism: Another theory of magic
Previous articleNext article FreeViscerality, faith, and skepticism Another theory of magicMichael TaussigMichael TaussigColumbia University Search for more articles by this author Columbia UniversityPDFPDF PLUSFull TextEPUBMOBI Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMore"Underlying all our mystic states are corporeal techniques, biological methods of entering…
Beauty and the Beast
Iconoclasm Dictionary
This iconoclastic essay/talk/performance about iconoclasm was influenced by the “Critical Dictionary” in Bataille's Documents magazine and is illustrated with drawings made on a flight from Austin to New York City
Excelente Zona Social
Writing culture suggests (1) allowing writing to take up the burden of theory, (2) practice Walter Benjamin's idea of denkbilden, or thought-images, (3) create culture as well as describe and analyze. Thus, this little sketch I call "Excelente zona social
I'm so Angry I Made a Sign
I Swear I Saw This: Drawings in Fieldwork Notebooks, Namely My Own
Cities of Yagé
The Corn-Wolf: Writing Apotropaic Texts
My Cocaine Museum
La bella y la bestia
En el Repositorio Institucional Séneca están depositados materiales en formato digital fruto de la producción científica o académica, de esta manera permite almacenar, difundir y preservar información de vital importancia
Redeeming Indigo
Zoology, Magic, and Surrealism in the War on Terror
Shamanism, Colonialism, and the Wild Man: A Study in Terror and Healing
My Cocaine Museum
Law in a Lawless Land: Diary of a Limpieza in Colombia
Michael Taussig, Law in a Lawless Land: Diary of a Limpieza in Colombia, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005,222 pages.The recent capture of leaders of Colombia's two most notorious guerrilla organizations, reported decreases in country's homicide rates, and a well-televised ceremony in 2003 depicting surrender of arms by a group of paramilitaries may lead one to believe that Colombia is finally at peace. And it may lead one to believe tha…
Shamanism, Colonialism, and the Wild Man: A Study in Terror and Healing
Michael Taussig's "Shamanism, Colonialism, and the Wild Man: A Study in Terror and Healing" explores the intersection of shamanism, colonialism, and the construction of the "wild man" in the Putumayo region of the Amazon during the rubber boom. Taussig argues that the terror inflicted upon the indigenous population by the colonial rubber regime became deeply intertwined with their existing shamanistic practices and beliefs. He examines how the co…
Violence in War and Peace: An Anthology
An alternative anthropology: exercising the preferential option of the poor / Leigh Binford
Tactility and Distraction
Culture of Terror-Space of Death. Roger Casement's Putumayo Report and the Explanation of Torture
This essay is about torture and the culture of terror, which for most of us, including myself, are known only through the words of others. Thus my concern is with the mediation of the culture of terror through narration-and with the problems of writing effectively against terror
The Genesis of Capitalism Amongst a South American Peasantry: Devil's Labor and the Baptism of Money
What does wage labor and capital mean to a peasantry that is subjected to rapid rural proletarianization and what is the basis of that meaning?I wish to discuss an aspect of this question in the light of certain ideological reactions manifested by a South American lowland peasantry as expanding sugar plantations absorb their lands and peasants are converted into landless wage laborers. In the southern extremities of the Cauca Valley, Colombia, it…
Reification and the consciousness of the patient
Viscerality, faith, and skepticism: Another theory of magic
Previous articleNext article FreeViscerality, faith, and skepticism Another theory of magicMichael TaussigMichael TaussigColumbia University Search for more articles by this author Columbia UniversityPDFPDF PLUSFull TextEPUBMOBI Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMore"Underlying all our mystic states are corporeal techniques, biological methods of entering…
What Color Is the Sacred
Over the past thirty years, visionary anthropologist Michael Taussig has crafted a highly distinctive body of work. Playful, enthralling, and whip-smart, his writing makes ingenious connections between ideas, thinkers, and things. An extended meditation on the mysteries of color and the fascination they provoke, What Color Is the Sacred? is the next step on Taussig's remarkable intellectual path. Following his interest in magic and surrealism, hi…
History as Commodity: In Some Recent American (Anthropological) Literature
Discussion critique des etudes de S. Mintz et de E. Wolf, de leurs conceptions de l'histoire| problematique du processus de substitution de la valeur d'echange a la valeur d'usage et de l'objectivation du monde a travers l'extension du consumerisme
The Devil and Commodity Fetishism in South America
This article explores the complex interplay between indigenous beliefs concerning the devil and the burgeoning capitalist market economy in South America. Blanchard and Taussig analyze how indigenous populations interpret and react to the alienating forces of commodity fetishism, arguing that the devil becomes a symbolic figure representing the perceived evils and inequalities brought about by capitalist expansion. They examine ethnographic examp…
History as Sorcery
Research Article| July 01 1984 History as Sorcery Michael Taussig Michael Taussig Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Representations (1984) 7: 87–109. https://doi.org/10.2307/2928457 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Michael Taussig; History as Sor…
The Beach (A Fantasy)
Peasant Economics and the Development of Capitalist Agriculture in the Cauca Valley, Colombia
I'm so Angry I Made a Sign
Palma Africana: A Novel
Michael Taussig's *Palma Africana: A Novel* delves into the complex and often brutal history of oil palm cultivation in Colombia. Through a blend of fiction, ethnography, and historical analysis, Taussig explores the social, economic, and environmental consequences of this industry, tracing its roots in colonial exploitation and its ongoing impact on local communities. The novel examines themes of violence, displacement, ecological devastation, a…
Redeeming Indigo
Violence and Resistance in the Americas: The Legacy of Conquest
The Corn-Wolf: Writing Apotropaic Texts
The Sun Gives Without Receiving: An Old Story
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Up Off Their Knees: Servanthood in Southwest Colombia
Live-in female servants form an important part of many Third World societies. It is therefore astonishing that so little is written about them and that they are hardly ever featured in discussions concerning the reproduction of the power that disfigures these neocolonial societies as a whole. Unconsciously accepted by radicals as much as by upholders of the status quo, female service is secured by the unthinking way people take it for granted, ju…
Zoology, Magic, and Surrealism in the War on Terror
The Magic of the State
Research Article| January 01 1992 The Magic of the State Michael Taussig Michael Taussig Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Public Culture (1992) 5 (1): 63-66. https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-5-1-63 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Michael Taussig; The Magic of the State. Public Culture 1 January 1992; 5 (1): 63-66. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-5-1-…
The Language of Flowers
Excelente Zona Social
Writing culture suggests (1) allowing writing to take up the burden of theory, (2) practice Walter Benjamin's idea of denkbilden, or thought-images, (3) create culture as well as describe and analyze. Thus, this little sketch I call "Excelente zona social
Dying Is an Art, like Everything Else
A Decade Later: A Follow up Study of Social Class and Mental Illness
The Genesis of Capitalism Amongst a South American Peasantry: Devil's Labor and the Baptism of Money
What does wage labor and capital mean to a peasantry that is subjected to rapid rural proletarianization and what is the basis of that meaning?I wish to discuss an aspect of this question in the light of certain ideological reactions manifested by a South American lowland peasantry as expanding sugar plantations absorb their lands and peasants are converted into landless wage laborers. In the southern extremities of the Cauca Valley, Colombia, it…
Peasant Economics and the Development of Capitalist Agriculture in the Cauca Valley, Colombia
Reification and the consciousness of the patient
The Devil and Commodity Fetishism in South America
This article explores the complex interplay between indigenous beliefs concerning the devil and the burgeoning capitalist market economy in South America. Blanchard and Taussig analyze how indigenous populations interpret and react to the alienating forces of commodity fetishism, arguing that the devil becomes a symbolic figure representing the perceived evils and inequalities brought about by capitalist expansion. They examine ethnographic examp…
Up Off Their Knees: Servanthood in Southwest Colombia
Live-in female servants form an important part of many Third World societies. It is therefore astonishing that so little is written about them and that they are hardly ever featured in discussions concerning the reproduction of the power that disfigures these neocolonial societies as a whole. Unconsciously accepted by radicals as much as by upholders of the status quo, female service is secured by the unthinking way people take it for granted, ju…
Civilization and the Stolen Gift: Capital, Kin, and Cult In Eastern Peru . Jacques M. CHEVALIER. Foreword by Ernesto Laclau
History as Sorcery
Research Article| July 01 1984 History as Sorcery Michael Taussig Michael Taussig Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Representations (1984) 7: 87–109. https://doi.org/10.2307/2928457 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Michael Taussig; History as Sor…
Culture of Terror-Space of Death. Roger Casement's Putumayo Report and the Explanation of Torture
This essay is about torture and the culture of terror, which for most of us, including myself, are known only through the words of others. Thus my concern is with the mediation of the culture of terror through narration-and with the problems of writing effectively against terror
History as commodity in some recent American (anthropological) literature
(1987). History as commodity in some recent American (anthropological) literature. Food and Foodways: Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 151-169
Shamanism, Colonialism, and the Wild Man: A Study in Terror and Healing
Michael Taussig's "Shamanism, Colonialism, and the Wild Man: A Study in Terror and Healing" explores the intersection of shamanism, colonialism, and the construction of the "wild man" in the Putumayo region of the Amazon during the rubber boom. Taussig argues that the terror inflicted upon the indigenous population by the colonial rubber regime became deeply intertwined with their existing shamanistic practices and beliefs. He examines how the co…
Cultura del terror-espacio de la muerte. El informe Putumayo de Roger Casement y la explicación de la tortura
Este ensaio explora a relação entre tortura e a cultura do terror, enfatizando a importância da narrativa na mediação da experiência do terror, frequentemente vivenciada indiretamente. Taussig analisa o relatório de Roger Casement de 1912 sobre a exploração e abuso de indígenas nos seringais do Putumayo, Peru, apresentado ao Ministério das Relações Exteriores britânico. O autor argumenta que a cultura do terror, por representar uma negação da civ…
History as Commodity: In Some Recent American (Anthropological) Literature
Discussion critique des etudes de S. Mintz et de E. Wolf, de leurs conceptions de l'histoire| problematique du processus de substitution de la valeur d'echange a la valeur d'usage et de l'objectivation du monde a travers l'extension du consumerisme
Boal in Brazil, France, the USA: An Interview with Augusto Boal
Cane Toads: An Unnatural History. 1988. Produced by Tristram Miall and directed by Mark Lewis . 46 minutes, color
Violence and Resistance in the Americas: The Legacy of Conquest
Tactility and Distraction
Tactility and Distraction
Physiognomic Aspects of Visual Worlds
The nervous system
"In a series of intriguing essays ranging over terror, State fetishism, shamanic healing in Latin America, homesickness, and the place of the tactile eye in both magic and modernity, anthropologist Michael Taussig puts into representational practice a curious type of engaged writing. Based on a paranoiac vision of social control and its understanding as in a permanent state of emergency leaving no room for contemplation between signs and things, …
The Magic of the State
Research Article| January 01 1992 The Magic of the State Michael Taussig Michael Taussig Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Public Culture (1992) 5 (1): 63-66. https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-5-1-63 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Michael Taussig; The Magic of the State. Public Culture 1 January 1992; 5 (1): 63-66. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-5-1-…
The search for divine justice: A beginning
The Sun Gives Without Receiving: An Old Story
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The Beach (A Fantasy)
Dying Is an Art, like Everything Else
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