Michael Taussig  

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Michael Taussig (b. 1940) received his PhD. in anthropology from the London School of Economics and is a professor at Columbia University. Although he has published on Medical anthropology he is best known for his engagement with Marx´s idea of commodity fetishism, especially in terms of the work of Walter Benjamin.

Publications

• The Devil and Commodity Fetishism in South America, 1980, ISBN 978-0-8078-4106-8.
• Shamanism, Colonialism, and the Wild Man : A Study in Terror and Healing, 1987, ISBN 978-0-226-79013-8.
• The Nervous System, 1992, ISBN 978-0-415-90445-2.
• Mimesis and Alterity: A Particular History of the Senses, 1993, ISBN 978-0-415-90687-6.
• The Magic of the State, 1997, ISBN 978-0-415-91791-9.
• Defacement: Public Secrecy and the Labor of the Negative, 1999, ISBN 978-0-8047-3200-0.
• Law in a Lawless Land: Diary of a Limpieza in Colombia, 2003, ISBN 978-0-226-79014-5.
• My Cocaine Museum, 2004, ISBN 978-0-226-79009-1. See an excerpt.
• Walter Benjamin's Grave, 2006, ISBN 978-0-226-79004-6. See an excerpt.
• What Color Is the Sacred?, 2009, ISBN 978-0-226-79006-0. See an excerpt.
• I Swear I Saw This: Drawings in Fieldwork Notebooks, Namely My Own, 2011, ISBN 978-0-226-78982-8
• Beauty and the Beast, 2012