In September 1940, Walter Benjamin committed suicide in Port Bou on the Spanish-French border whe...

When the attempt to translate something into sound and meaning fails or is only partially success...

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In his most ambitious and accomplished work to date, Michael Taussig undertakes a history of mime...

In this classic book, Michael Taussig explores the social significance of the devil in the folklo...

Set in the enchanted mountain of a spirit-queen presiding over an unnamed, postcolonial country, ...

In a series of intriguing essays ranging over terror, State fetishism, shamanic healing in Latin ...

In this ambitious and accomplished work, Taussig explores the complex and interwoven concepts of ...

Set in the enchanted mountain of a spirit-queen presiding over an unnamed, postcolonial country, ...

This ambitious work explores the complex and interwoven concepts of mimesis, the practice of imit...

Over the past thirty years, visionary anthropologist Michael Taussig has crafted a highly distinc...

Francis Alÿs examines the patterns of various urban sites before weaving his own fables into thei...