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Michael T. Taussig

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Michael Taussig (born 1940) earned a medical degree from the University of Sydney, received his PhD. in anthropology from the London School of Economics and is a professor at Columbia University and European Graduate School. 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.

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Average rating: 4.03 · 536 ratings · 50 reviews · 16 distinct works

	Devil and Commodity Fetishism in South America by Michael T. Taussig, Taussig, Michael T. Taussig, Michael T. 3.85 avg rating — 96 ratings — published 1980 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Shamanism, Colonialism, and the Wild Man: A Study in Terror and Healing by Michael T. Taussig, Taussig 4.33 avg rating — 87 ratings — published 1987 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Mimesis and Alterity: A Particular History of the Senses 3.87 avg rating — 90 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	My Cocaine Museum 3.88 avg rating — 57 ratings — published 2004 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Law in a Lawless Land: Diary of a Limpieza in Colombia 4.04 avg rating — 52 ratings — published 2003 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Walter Benjamin's Grave 4.09 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 2006 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Defacement: Public Secrecy and the Labor of the Negative 3.93 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 1999 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Magic of the State 4.20 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 1996 — 2 editions	My rating:
	What Color Is the Sacred? 4.11 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Nervous System 4.26 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 1991 — 3 editions	My rating: