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Michael Taussig
Researcher at Columbia University
Publications - 46
Citations - 10816
Michael Taussig is an academic researcher from Columbia University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Commodity fetishism & Magic (paranormal). The author has an hindex of 28, co-authored 46 publications receiving 10557 citations. Previous affiliations of Michael Taussig include New York University & University of Michigan.
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The Nervous System
TL;DR: The Nervous System as discussed by the authors is 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.
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Mimesis and Alterity: A Particular History of the Senses
TL;DR: Taussig as discussed by the authors explores the history of mimesis, the practice of imitation, and its relation to alterity, the opposition of Self and Other, and argues that mime is deeply tied to colonialism, and more specifically to the colonial trade's construction of "savages."
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The Devil and Commodity Fetishism in South America
José E. Limón,Michael Taussig +1 more
TL;DR: Taussig as discussed by the authors explores the social significance of the devil in the folklore of contemporary plantation workers and miners in South America and finds that the fetishization of evil, in the image of the Devil, mediates the conflict between precapitalist and capitalist modes of objectifying the human condition.
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Shamanism, Colonialism, and the Wild Man: A Study in Terror and Healing
TL;DR: Taussig as discussed by the authors used the image of the Indian shaman as Wild Man to reveal not the magic of the shaman but that of the politicizing fictions creating the effect of the real.
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The Devil and Commodity Fetishism in South America
TL;DR: Taussig as discussed by the authors explores the social significance of the devil in the folklore of contemporary plantation workers and miners in South America and finds that the fetishization of evil, in the image of the Devil, mediates the conflict between precapitalist and capitalist modes of objectifying the human condition.