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The Corn Wolf by Michael Taussig
Booksplease Price: $42.88Collecting a decade of work from iconic anthropologist and writer Michael Taussig, The Corn Wolf pinpoints a moment of intellectual development for the master stylist, exemplifying the "nervous... -
Beauty and the Beast by Michael Taussig
Booksplease Price: $48.95"Beauty and the Beast" begins with a question: Is beauty destined to end in tragedy? Drawing on extensive fieldwork in Colombia, Michael Taussig scrutinizes the anxious, audacious, and sometimes... -
The Nervous System by Michael Taussig
RRP: $97.48Booksplease Price: $88.20In 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... -
Palma Africana by Michael Taussig
Booksplease Price: $48.36"It is the contemporary elixir from which all manner of being emerges, the metamorphic sublime, an alchemist's dream." So begins Palma Africana, the latest attempt by anthropologist Michael Taussig... -
Palma Africana by Michael Taussig 9780226515946
RRP: $156.00Booksplease Price: $150.74"It is the contemporary elixir from which all manner of being emerges, the metamorphic sublime, an alchemist's dream." So begins Palma Africana, the latest attempt by anthropologist Michael Taussig... -
What Color is the Sacred? by Michael Taussig
Booksplease Price: $55.67Over the past thirty years, visionary anthropologist Michael Taussig has crafted a highly distinctive body of work. Playful, enthralling, and whip-smart, his writing makes ingenious connections... -
The Corn Wolf by Michael Taussig 9780226310718
Booksplease Price: $182.70Collecting a decade of work from iconic anthropologist and writer Michael Taussig, The Corn Wolf pinpoints a moment of intellectual development for the master stylist, exemplifying the "nervous... -
Postcards for Mia Michael Taussig 9781913689421
RRP: $52.65Booksplease Price: $34.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913689421Author Michael TaussigFormat HardbackPage Count 72Imprint Strange Attractor... -
The Magic of the State by Michael Taussig 9780415917919
RRP: $89.68Booksplease Price: $81.51Set 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... -
Walter Benjamin's Grave by Michael Taussig 9780226790039
RRP: $156.00Booksplease Price: $150.74In September 1940, Walter Benjamin committed suicide in Port Bou on the Spanish-French border when it appeared that he and his travelling partners would be denied passage into Spain in their attempt... -
My Cocaine Museum by Michael Taussig 9780226790091
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What Color is the Sacred? by Michael Taussig 9780226790053
RRP: $156.00Booksplease Price: $150.74Over the past thirty years, visionary anthropologist Michael Taussig has crafted a highly distinctive body of work. Playful, enthralling, and whip-smart, his writing makes ingenious connections... -
Mastery of Non-Mastery in the Age of Meltdown by Michael Taussig
Booksplease Price: $48.36For centuries, humans have excelled at mimicking nature in order to exploit it. Now, with the existential threat of global climate change on the horizon, the ever-provocative Michael Taussig asks... -
Defacement: Public Secrecy and the Labor of the Negative by Michael Taussig
RRP: $52.63Booksplease Price: $45.79Defacement asks what happens when something precious is despoiled. It begins with the notion that such activity is attractive in its very repulsion, and that it creates something sacred even in the... -
Mimesis and Alterity: A Particular History of the Senses by Michael Taussig
RRP: $103.33Booksplease Price: $93.21In 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... -
Mastery of Non-Mastery in the Age of Meltdown by Michael Taussig 9780226684581
RRP: $126.75Booksplease Price: $123.32For centuries, humans have excelled at mimicking nature in order to exploit it. Now, with the existential threat of global climate change on the horizon, the ever-provocative Michael Taussig asks... -
Mimesis and Alterity: A Particular History of the Senses Michael Taussig 9781138242982
RRP: $89.68Booksplease Price: $80.71In this ambitious and accomplished work, Taussig explores the complex and interwoven concepts of mimesis, the practice of imitation, and alterity, the opposition of Self and Other. The book moves... -
And the Garden Is You: Essays on Fieldwork, Writingwork, and Readingwork Michael Taussig 9780226832401
Booksplease Price: $42.88A new collection of essays reflecting on the centrality of writing anthropological practice from one of the discipline's most influential thinkers. Michael Taussig's work is known for its critical... -
Law in a Lawless Land: Diary of a Limpieza in Colombia Michael Taussig 9780226790145
Booksplease Price: $46.55A modern nation in a state of total disorder, Colombia is an international flash-point - wracked by more than half a century of civil war, political conflict, and drug-trade related violence -... -
And the Garden Is You: Essays on Fieldwork, Writingwork, and Readingwork Michael Taussig 9780226832388
RRP: $179.40Booksplease Price: $172.67A new collection of essays reflecting on the centrality of writing anthropological practice from one of the discipline's most influential thinkers. Michael Taussig's work is known for its critical... -
Corpse Magic: Echoes Active in the Slayer-Slain Nexus by Michael Taussig 9780226837390
RRP: $179.40Booksplease Price: $172.67Explores the corrosive impact of violence and examines conceptions of magic as capable of intervening in—and even interrupting—cycles of violence.Corpse Magic is a response to the ubiquity of... -
I Swear I Saw This: Drawings in Fieldwork Notebooks, Namely My Own by Michael Taussig 9780226789835
Booksplease Price: $46.55"I Swear I Saw This" records visionary anthropologist Michael Taussig's reflections on the fieldwork notebooks he kept through forty years of travels in Colombia. Taking as a starting point a drawing... -
Faces of the State: Secularism and Public Life in Turkey by Yael Navaro-Yashin
RRP: $101.40Booksplease Price: $81.82Faces of the State is a penetrating study of the production of a state-revering political culture in the public life of 1990s Turkey. In this new contribution to the anthropology of the state, Yael... -
Justice and Injustice in Law and Legal Theory by Austin Sarat 9780472066254
RRP: $48.65Booksplease Price: $47.07Running through the history of jurisprudence and legal theory is a recurring concern about the connections between law and justice and about the ways law is implicated in injustice. In earlier times... -
Walter Benjamin's Grave by Michael T. Taussig 9780226790046
Booksplease Price: $55.67In September 1940, Walter Benjamin committed suicide in Port Bou on the Spanish-French border when it appeared that he and his travelling partners would be denied passage into Spain in their attempt... -
Violence: A Reader by Catherine Besteman 9780814798997
Booksplease Price: $177.20Historians consider the previous century to have been one of the most violent periods in human history. As we move into an era where violence is sanitized and normalized in the media, and depicted as... -
Violence: A Reader by Catherine Besteman 9780814799000
Booksplease Price: $60.02Historians consider the previous century to have been one of the most violent periods in human history. As we move into an era where violence is sanitized and normalized in the media, and depicted as... -
Iconoclasm: The Breaking and Making of Images by Rachel F. Stapleton 9780773557376
RRP: $60.45Booksplease Price: $51.89Iconoclasm - the alteration, destruction, or displacement of icons - is usually considered taboo or profane. But, on occasion, the act of destroying the sacred unintentionally bestows iconic status... -
Shamanism, History, and the State by Nicholas Thomas 9780472084012
RRP: $48.65Booksplease Price: $47.07The literature on shamanism and related topics is extensive, but has in general been biased toward curing and trance; the political and historical significance of shamanic activities has been largely... -
Pretenzione Intenzione – Objects of Beauty and Bewilderment from the Archive of Harald Szeemann by Michele Robecchi 9783907236833
RRP: $78.00Booksplease Price: $61.48"Pretenzione Intenzione: Objects of Beauty and Bewilderment from the Archive of Harald Szeemann draws on a selection of objects in the estate of art historian and exhibition maker Harald Szeemann... -
Landscape and Power by W. J. T. Mitchell
Booksplease Price: $56.26The first edition of this book, published in 1994, reshaped the direction of landscape studies by considering landscape not simply as an object to be seen or a text to be read, but as an instrument... -
Body Transformations: Evolutions and Atavisms in Culture by Alphonso Lingis 9780415973670
RRP: $77.98Booksplease Price: $71.49This book presents some eruptions of archaic compulsions and behaviors and the forms that they acquire in contemporary societies. It explores how we see and feel our bodies and some of the ways... -
Critical Anthropology: Foundational Works by Stephen L. Nugent
RRP: $97.48Booksplease Price: $87.34Critical anthropology has had a major influence on the discipline, shifting it away from concepts of bounded societies with evolutionary trajectories to complex analyses of interconnected economic,... -
Occupy - Three Inquiries in Disobedience W. J. T. Mitchell 9780226042749
Booksplease Price: $31.26Mic check! Mic check! Lacking amplification in Zuccotti Park, Occupy Wall Street protestors addressed one another by repeating and echoing speeches throughout the crowd. In "Occupy", W. J. T... -
Violence: A Reader by Catherine Besteman 9780333947760
Booksplease Price: $109.43The essays in this book address the inter-relationship of power, politics, and violence, examining why the political process of managing power within states sometimes becomes physically violent. This... -
Jill Mulleady: Fight or Flight Jill Mulleady 9798987633212
RRP: $52.65Booksplease Price: $36.33The first major monograph on Jill Mulleady, whose paintings feature humans and animals enacting their instinctive psychological reactions to ever-present threats of danger In the paintings and... -
Distillations: Nancy Goldring Drawings and Foto-Projections 1971-2021 by Nancy Goldring
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $43.21Distillations: Nancy Goldring Drawings and Foto-Projections 1971-2021 surveys 50 years of visual and conceptual explorations by artist and writer Nancy Goldring. Material is arranged according to... -
Border Fetishisms: Material Objects in Unstable Spaces Patricia Spyer 9780415918572
RRP: $97.48Booksplease Price: $88.20The essays in Border Fetishisms explore the cultural, commercial, political and erotic dimensions that distinguish fetish formations in fractured colonial and postcolonial spaces. Spanning... -
The Devil and Commodity Fetishism in South America by Michael T. Taussig 9780807871331
RRP: $60.45Booksplease Price: $51.89In 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... -
Aernout Mik Laurence Kardish 9780870707421
RRP: $33.05Booksplease Price: $24.08Dutch artist Aernout Mik's moving-image installations meld filmmaking, sculpture and architecture into experiences that are at once compelling, unsettling, peculiar and plausible. The artist designs...