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.
