Michael T. Taussig

Michael T. Taussig

Research Interests

Art, Objects, Public Makings
Language, Social Theory, Critical Theory
Slavery, Colonialism, Race, Racial Capitalism
Text, Translation, Writing, Aesthetics
Theater, Ritual, Performance

Research Concentrations

Fictocriticism, The Sacred, Palm Oil, Art of Fieldwork, Mastery of Non-Mastery                                                                                                                                                      

Regions

South America; Colombia, Bolivia

Education

University of London, PhD, 1974
London School of Economics, MSc in Sociology, 1969
University of Sydney, MBBS (Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery), 1964

2018. Palma Africana. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

2015. The Corn Wolf. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

2009. What Color Is the Sacred? Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

2004. My Cocaine Museum. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

1997. Magic of the State. New York: Routledge.

1993. Mimesis and Alterity: A Particular History of the Senses. New York: Routledge.

1987. Shamanism, Colonialism, and the Wild Man: A Study in Terror and Healing. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

1980. The Devil and Commodity Fetishim in South America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.

Selected Publications