LIBROS DEL AUTOR: michael taussig

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  • Mimesis and Alterity
    Michael Taussig
    This ambitious work explores the complex and interwoven concepts of mimesis, the practice of imitation, and alterity, the opposition of Self and Other. Drawing on the ideas of Benjamin, Adorno and Horckheimer and ethnographic accounts of the Cuna, Taussig demonstrates how the history of mimesis is deeply tied to colonialism and the idea of alterity has become increasingly unsta...
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    82,74 €

  • Esclavitud y libertad en el valle del río Cauca
    Anna Dattilo Rubbo / Michael Thomas Taussig
    Este libro fue escrito en el año de 1975 por Anna Rubbo y Michael Taussig, quienes tenían 27 y 29 años respectivamente cuando pasaron quince meses en Puerto Tejada a partir de 1969, seis meses en 1972, y nueve meses entre los años 1975-1976. Fue publicado por La Rosca bajo la dirección de Orlando Fals Borda y salió en una edición de bolsillo en el año 1975. Está agotado desde h...
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    11,96 €

  • The Devil and Commodity Fetishism in South America
    Michael T. Taussig / Michael TTaussig
    In this classic book, Michael Taussig explores the social significance of the devil in the folklore of contemporary plantation workers and miners in South America. Grounding his analysis in Marxist theory, Taussig 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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    50,95 €

  • The Magic of the State
    Michael Taussig
    Set in the enchanted mountain of a spirit-queen presiding over an unnamed, postcolonial country, this ethnographic work of ficto-criticism recreates in written form the shrines by which the dead--notably the fetishized forms of Europe’s Others, Indians and Blacks--generate the magical powers of the modern state. ...
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    82,87 €

  • Mimesis and Alterity
    Michael Taussig
    In his most ambitious and accomplished work to date, Michael Taussig undertakes a history of mimesis, the practice of imitation, and its relation to alterity, the opposition of Self and Other. Drawing upon such diverse sources as theories of Benjamin, Adorno and Horckheimer, research on the Cuna Indians, and theories of colonialism and postcolonialism, Taussig shows that the hi...
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    94,56 €

  • The Nervous System
    Michael Taussig
    In 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, anthropologist Michael Taussig puts into representational practice a curious type of engaged writing. Based on a paranoiac vision of social control and its understanding as in a permanent state of e...
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    89,62 €